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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2024

Leading Blog

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2024 curated just for you. On the Edge : How Successful Gamblers Think and What It Tells Us About Navigating Risk by Nate Silver In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise , Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data.

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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

W E OFTEN THINK of innovation as something visionaries draw out of thin air, like manna from heaven. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s about a wildly successful company that went off course. Innovation had become the goal, and that wasn’t enough.

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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2024

Leading Blog

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in May 2024 curated just for you. Maxwell, tackles the problem of our divided world in his latest book High Road Leadership. What you say and how you act in your early days as CEO sets the tone for how you'll be perceived for years to come.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi wrote, “the fundamental role of a leader is to look for ways to shape the decades ahead, not just react to the present, and to help others accept the discomfort of disruptions to the status quo.”. Many of the books listed below help us to do just that. That’s not the way to lead. Leadership is about hope.

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How Innovation Naturally Emerges From Deliberate Inefficiency

Eric Jacobson

“The fact is that most companies are structured to maximize efficiency and minimize risk, resulting in an environment that ultimately prevents meaningful innovations,” explains Elliott Parker , author of the new book, The Illusion of Innovation. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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First Look: Leadership Books for March 2023

Leading Blog

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2023 curated just for you. Most important, this book is not just another compilation of case studies. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. The result: mixed signals.

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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2021

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2021. In Be Where Your Feet Are , this CEO of the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils offers his own story of grief and healing, and shares his most valuable lessons in what keeps him present, grounded, and thriving as a father, husband, coach, mentor, and leader.

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