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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2023

Leading Blog

Leading through Disruption : A Changemaker’s Guide to Twenty-First Century Leadership by Andrew Liveris In Leading Through Disruption , Andrew Liveris provides a new leadership paradigm for resilience and agility in a rapidly changing world. Middle manager."

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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

Agile organizations treat disruption and adversity as opportunities.” In this environment of constant change, I often hear that we should be agile. They define agility and offer leaders a roadmap for navigating change. For those who haven’t read the book yet, what is agility? Navigate through Change.

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Retention and Development of Great Talent

Coaching Tip

Companies worry about losing talent – Google is losing talent to Facebook as it becomes bigger, slower and less agile.”. . Why talent at the top doesn’t notice bad design while talent in the middle suffers. “ Top-level leaders create the matrix, but the burden of living in it falls on middle management.

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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Its practitioners are the modernization of the much-maligned yet depended-upon middle manager. What Sets Effective Middle Management Apart. Luckily, Susan David and Christina Congleton explain how you can learn to do a better job of managing your thoughts and emotions in Emotional Agility. Connect Then Lead.

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To Lead a Digital Transformation, CEOs Must Prioritize

Harvard Business Review

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy.

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Building Critical Thinking Muscle: An L&D Mandate

QAspire

I was joined by Mahalaxmi R who is the CLO & Global Head Talent at Airtel and Rajesh Lele. senior leadership and middle management – Tanmay Vora. Q4: What are the road blocks that L&D practitioners & Managers are likely to face in implementing these change intervention? A5 Better decisions and planning.

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Scaling Your UX Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Instead, inspired by the startup market, many businesses are experimenting with lean, agile product development processes, which benefit from customer insights, participatory design, and prototyping. Lean UX : In many cases, the best way to embed UX thinking in your product development teams is not to focus on design as a specific competency.