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First Look: Leadership Books for March 2020

Leading Blog

New research shows that gratitude boosts employee engagement, reduces turnover, and leads team members to express more gratitude to one another—strengthening team bonds. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 39 titles. Showing gratitude to employees is the easiest, fastest, most inexpensive way to boost performance.

Books 377
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What Work Looks like in a World Shaped by COVID

Skip Prichard

Less team bonding. Note: Our research team at OCLC recently published a report , “New Model Library: Pandemic Effects and Library Directions,” that addresses these issues within the library profession. Many are working at home and have been struggling with: Less commute time to detox before entering family life.

Library 111
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How the Best Place of Work Became A State of Mind

Great Leadership By Dan

Featuring a series of five distinct rooms, each is dedicated to a specific mode of work: the gallery for inspiration, the salon for conversation, the library for research, the office for light work, and my personal favorite, the chamber for deep work. There are strong bonds and good communication between workers.

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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2019

Leading Blog

How a Shark, a Suckerfish, and a Parasite Teach You Leadership, Mentoring, and Next Level Success by Walter Bond. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 39 titles. It provides readers with the tools they need to design innovative and indelible experiences and to move their organizations into the experience economy.

Books 187
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First Look: Leadership Books for January 2022

Leading Blog

If we play the villain, we will not create genuine bonds. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 28 titles. There are four characters in every story: The victim, the villain, the hero, and the guide. These four characters live inside us. If we play the victim, we’re doomed to fail.

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Creating a Winning Corporate Culture Through People Power

Great Leadership By Dan

It requires having a deep understanding of human connections, of bonds, and of ways to break down barriers. Host lunch + Learns with deep insights into relevant topics and needed skills, create a library filled with resources to help your staff elevate their game.

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How Employees Shaped Strategy at the New York Public Library

Harvard Business Review

The New York Public Library is one of the largest public libraries in the world, with 18 million visitors yearly, a budget of nearly $300m, and 93 branches. Library leaders knew that given the immense changes brought on by digital innovations, as well as shifts in the communities that the Library served, it would need to evolve.