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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2023

Leading Blog

You'll learn from more than a hundred successful leaders who share their powerful insights and compelling stories of how to make the leap, along with practical strategies and tactics for building a loyal following, moving up quickly to broaden your impact, and making the subtle but crucial mindset shifts that are required to lead others effectively.

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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.”. . How good organization design can energize talent – and why creating “good conflicts” is key. “Bad Why talent at the top doesn’t notice bad design while talent in the middle suffers. “ Kates says.

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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. Research and examples published in HBR this year — including an account of a much more effective government agency’s approach to solving problems — prove how critical they are to innovation. Emotional Agility.

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

But if middle managers wind up caught in bureaucratic procedures and rule-enforcement mindsets, implementations will falter. Knowing how to use lean, self-managing team methodologies is a prerequisite. For example, one large industrial company needed a better way to get people on cross-functional projects.

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How Leaders Can Focus on the Big Picture

Harvard Business Review

We have been told that participative leadership, rather than prescriptive leadership, is what we should aim for; that organizations should be agile, with “change the only constant”; and that empowerment is critical for employee satisfaction and long-term value. How to Create an Exponential Mindset. You and Your Team Series.

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What U2 and the US Navy Have in Common: Connecting with Core Employees

Michael Lee Stallard

To Bono, U2 is “the best example of how to rely on others.” Admiral Clark’s description of who sailors are as members of the U.S. Considering himself a “lousy guitar player and an even lousier piano player,” he relies on his fellow band members and recognizes that they are integral to his success. Bono’s mother died when he was 14 years old.

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