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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

Never Enough : A Navy SEAL Commander on Living a Life of Excellence, Agility, and Meaning by Mike Hayes (Celadon Books, 2021) Mike Hayes has lived a lifetime of once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Winning organizations aren’t fear-free; they know how to reframe fear into opportunities for learning and growth. Blog Post ).

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The Change Agent’s Dilemma Radio Show – 2014 Episodes

Change Starts Here

This year on The Change Agent’s Dilemma radio show, fantastic guests joined the show to share their wisdom, experience and tips for how to influence change at work. In this episode, Dotty Posto, President of Posto Management Consulting, shares how to use creativity to design breakthrough change communication. Guest: Ankit Patel.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

First, they must know how to effectively scale people—helping key individuals make a massive impact across the entire organization. Prior to joining Tech Data, Simonetti served as Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Baker & Taylor, Inc. “What makes a great CHRO, great? Many things actually.

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Manager vs. ?

Lead on Purpose

To me, “product owner&# was just an agile title for the guy who fed requirements into the dev team. – The Product Management Perspective: Much has been written about product owner vs. product manager. I’ve always considered myself the latter.

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Just Make a Decision Already

Harvard Business Review

Strategic decisiveness is one of the most vital success attributes for leaders in every position and every industry, but few leaders understand where it comes from or how to find more of it. The excellent leaders in Kevin Wilde’s study have simply learned how to make “decisive” their default setting. Decisive By Training.

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A Brief History of the Ways Companies Compete

Harvard Business Review

The attempt to turn business into a science of efficiency, also known as “ Taylorism ,” marked the high point of this movement. Many companies still compete this way and there continue to be successors to Taylorism, including business process reengineering and lean production.

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Fulfilling the Promise of AI Requires Rethinking the Nature of Work Itself

Harvard Business Review

Paul Taylor/Getty Images. Companies that navigate this tension will be the ones that focus everyone on how to create more value for customers and for the business. Until employers are able to help people strengthen agility and passion, we will continue to have a discovery gap and fall prey to the efficiency trap.