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Featured Leading Voice: Chip Bell

Lead Change Blog

” The books Chip has found most helpful for his professional life include Watership Down by Richard Adams, Marketing for Business Growth by Ted Levitt, and The Purple Cow by Seth Godin. ” As for advice he would give, he believes schools should teach ethics.

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These are a few of our favorite … books!

Reality-Based Leadership

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar , by Cheryl Strayed. Levitt and Stephen J. Cy’s picks: Seat of the Soul , by Gary Zukav. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment , by Eckhart Tolle. Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life , by Byron Katie.

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Fixing a Work Relationship Gone Sour

Harvard Business Review

Chances are when the relationship went sour, you turned to other people for advice and commiseration. Rachel Levitt* had an ongoing conflict with her coworker, Pia*. “Being true to the things you’ve offered will continue to deepen the relationship and make sure it doesn’t slip back into mistrust,” he says. Involve other people.

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A Refresher on Marketing Myopia

Harvard Business Review

The term was coined by the late Harvard Business School marketing professor, Theodore Levitt, in a 1960 article by the same name (republished in 2004). ” As Levitt used to tell his students, “People don’t want a quarter-inch drill. Levitt suggests that leaders ask themselves: What business are we really in?

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11 Books Every Young Leader Must Read

Harvard Business Review

They remain a wonderful insight into the mind of a man who ruled history's most revered empire at the age of 40 and provide remarkably practical advice for everyday life. His advice — about prioritization, empathy, self-renewal, and other topics — is both insightful and practical. Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning.

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Obsess Over Your Customers, Not Your Rivals

Harvard Business Review

Theodore Levitt's classic theory -- in under two minutes. Content, marketing, and PR campaigns featuring user success stories, advice on making and breaking habits, cost-effective recipes and cooking tutorials, and other messages tailored to remove the frictions commonly encountered on the journey from unhealthy to healthy.

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11 Books Every Young Leader Must Read

Harvard Business Review

They remain a wonderful insight into the mind of a man who ruled history's most revered empire at the age of 40 and provide remarkably practical advice for everyday life. His advice — about prioritization, empathy, self-renewal, and other topics — is both insightful and practical. Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning.

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