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Be a Better Leader – Be More Like Your Heroes!

Marshall Goldsmith

Peter Drucker, Father of Modern Management. Richard Beckhard, World Leading Organizational Development Consultant. Richard Beckhard — extremely generous, great teacher. To the degree possible, be a leader, manager, coach, person just like that. With my new project 15 Coaches. 15 Coaches is my legacy project.

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Ready for Change – book review

Rapid BI

This is a change management book aimed at Leaders, managers, Human Resources and organizational change professionals looking to be ready for change. One thing I do first when looking at a management book for the first time is look at the design. Related posts: Change management – approach and models.

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Team Building Without Time Wasting

Marshall Goldsmith

Research involving thousands of participants has shown how focused feedback and follow-up can increase leadership and customer service effectiveness (Hesselbein, Goldsmith, and Beckhard, 1996). of the project. Some people may report to the same manager, but legitimately have little reason to work interactively as a team.