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10 Books You Should Read This Summer 2024

Leading Blog

Try a book you usually don’t pick up. Supercommunicators : How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg - (February 2024) Come inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. But this is not merely a sports book. S UMMER is here. Create a summer reading plan.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2024 curated just for you. More often it's an implicit contract, a buildup of organizational and cultural norms and the adoption of new technologies that make it easy to tether people to work. It's time to fight back.

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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2020

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2020. To stay relevant, we have to be able to excel cognitively, behaviorally, and emotionally in ways that technology can't. To stay relevant, we have to be able to excel cognitively, behaviorally, and emotionally in ways that technology can't.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality.

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Shaken, Not Stirred: 4 Examples of Workplace Conflict and How to Build Stronger Bonds

Let's Grow Leaders

Today’s examples of workplace conflict can best be described as a complex cocktail of challenges: tired workers in an uncertain economy; a pandemic hangover of isolation and anxiety; rapid social and technological change; and exhausted managers doing the best they can– many of whom lack the training and resources to navigate this well.

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by John Hooker : Everyone knows that an organization can’t function without physical infrastructure communications, transportation, computer technology, and the rest. The third stage is autonomy , in which people acknowledge the validity of different points of view but strive toward a rational consensus.

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Are You a Micromanaging Snoopervisor?

The Practical Leader

People who disagree, dissent, or push back against the group consensus or the boss are labeled as not being team players. “The Anxious Micromanager,” excepts from neuropsychologist, Julia DiGangi’s new book, Energy Rising: The Neuroscience of Leading with Emotional Power. Then, the true issues are clearly named.