Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Many of the books listed below help us to do just that. The books listed below help us to build the right foundation from which we can lead others. We surround ourselves with people who agree with our conclusions, when we should be gravitating toward those who challenge our thought process. Leaders are dealers in hope.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2021. This innovative resource features real-life examples of how today’s most successful companies are building upstanding character while increasing employee engagement, happiness, and performance. When we're moving at 115 MPH, we rarely see the wall coming.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A good book helps us to do just that. Here are ten books to help you get back into the world of work and make plans for an improved future: How Trust Works : The Science of How Relationships Are Built, Broken, and Repaired by Peter H. Same as Ever reverses the process, inviting us to identify the many things that never, ever change.

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 19, 2023

And the most Effective Leaders follow a repeatable, step-by-step process for clarifying and solving the right problem, emphasizing the importance of writing down and agreeing on the problem, acknowledging distracting assumptions, listing possible causes through diverse perspectives, and gaining support for implementing the solution.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in May 2020. Perfectly Confident is the first book to bring together the best psychological and economic studies to explain exactly what confidence is, when it can be helpful, and when it can be destructive in our lives.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2020. One thing is clear: advances in technology have not been matched by the necessary innovation to our social structures. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases not listed here. Scott and Lynda Gratton. Smart new technologies.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2022 curated just for you. So that's when Hunter decided to practice one of the dominating principles he teaches in his new book: help others realize the importance of making the most of the time they're given and building a legacy that will last.

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LDRLB

MARCH 29, 2013

When I started researching creativity and innovation, one of the thought leaders I kept reading from again and again was Keith Sawyer. His book, Group Genius , was the first to truly examine collaborative creativity. Naturally, I was inclined to read and review Keith’s newest book Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2019. The Innovator's Book : Rules for Rebels, Mavericks and Innovators (Concise Advice) by Dr Max Mckeown. The intent of this book—the author's goal for you—is to understand the baseless underpinnings of almost all our fears.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in April 2020. They need to learn to launch new initiatives, inspire others, and champion innovative approaches. Rather, it's the apex of a certain thought process—a way to imagine the unimaginable and solve the unsolvable. But it's not.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 24, 2018

Change is not about innovating the most. So, do not think you can prepare a checklist for your process, and then work your way through it. The post Understanding the Change Process appeared first on Lead Change. I have successfully practised Michael Fullan’s model and offer these thoughts for your consideration and comment.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2019

There’s increasing pressure on organizations to be more competitive, and leaders need to have the right skills to influence employees’ innovative behavior. Besides helping them better handle workplace-related challenges, leaders evoke innovation and creativity and inspire them to reach their full potential. The answer is both.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2020. The book's goal is to help readers learn about the intricacies of teaching and managing, and to impart lessons about how teachers can create a unique teaching atmosphere. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 25, 2019

Guest post from Alf Rehn: Some say we live in the golden age of innovation, an age ruled by transformation and revolution. Instead, I would argue that we live in the age of innovation crisis. We’ve never spent more on innovation, yet as many CEOs are starting to notice, the returns are diminishing, and the trend is down, not up.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 18, 2022

Your book, Courageous Cultures, kind of scares me. And they said, “yeah, maybe not so much on the innovation.” Communicate your desire for innovation in the areas you really want them to focus on. How do you help your team focus on the most helpful innovation? Turn Too Many Ideas into Ideas You Can Use.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 22, 2024

Critical thinking is essential amidst societal divisiveness, emphasizing the need for innovative problem-solving. 21:53 – 25:51: Cultivating Meaningful Work and Happiness The long-term commitment required for personal transformation, achieving meaningful work and happiness is not a quick process but rather a lifelong journey.

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 7, 2013

David Burkus’ new book, The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas , is among the best business books I’ve read this year. It provides a valuable review of research and practices related to the process of innovation. I highly recommend it.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Each year, after reading and reviewing dozens of new leadership books, I select my pick for the year's best new leadership book. For 2023, after reading nearly 40 leadership books, my pick for this year’s best new leadership book is When Everyone Leads. In the meantime, add this book to your must-read list.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 11, 2020

Guest post by Chuck Swoboda : As increasing competition, new technologies and evolving customer expectations continue to disrupt nearly every industry, business leaders are turning to innovation as a way to keep their companies relevant. The standard solution is to create teams that focus explicitly on innovation. The problem?

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For instance, a study from KU Leuven University and the European Central Bank found that large companies do understandably innovate more often and more successfully than SMEs. In relative terms, this may be a small number, but when set against the 20 million or so SMEs operating across Europe, it’s a vast number of innovative firms.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. Books like Helping People Change and The Power of Bad , have the power to change forever how we work with others and address the things that hold us back. Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P. It is a theme that runs through most of these titles.

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation. Optimizing innovation: Improving the past.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Guest post by Kris Oestergaard: Today, every business is looking to find ways to streamline its innovative abilities. Those successful in establishing a culture of innovation have addressed their organization’s “immune systems.” Organizational leaders need to address all three in order to transform into innovation champions.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 10, 2012

If you haven’t there’s still time left in 2012 to dig into these great books. Clay Christensen new book helps build that foundation by taking well-research business concepts and outlining how to apply them to your own life. This is the quintessential book on leadership with loads of empirical support. Innovation.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Like the weather, many leaders talk about agility and innovation, but few managers do much about it. Unlike the weather, there’s a great deal managers can do about building agile and innovative cultures. Controlled chaos is a tricky process with four main stages. These four innovation stages aren’t neat and orderly.

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Leading Blog

MAY 5, 2023

We now have the opportunity to deal with new realities, but that calls for an entirely new approach to half-century-old strategic processes. And too many organizations hold on to processes and procedures that not only will not help to reach the vision, but will usually impede progress. Moreover, innovation needs to be rather immediate.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 18, 2020

How to Ignite Innovation. Innovation is one subject that each and every one of us should study because its powerful force is available to us if we know how to tap it. It’s no surprise that Tamara Ghandour’s book interested me because I read all I can about innovation and creativity. Everyone is Innovative .

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

This tool comes from this great book called TRIZICS by Gordon Cameron. Identify ways to create more robust conversations amongst your team, break stuckness in thinking, and continue developing conversations that will support the emergence of new ideas and innovation inside your team or group. How does it change the process?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

I N THE AGE of digitization, businesses face a critical imperative: to adapt and embrace innovation or risk being left behind in a rapidly evolving world. This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

That’s what Brand Positive co-founder Sean Pillot de Chencey teaches in his book Influencers & Revolutionaries: How Innovative Trailblazers, Trends and Catalysts Are Transforming Businesses. I recently had the opportunity to ask him about his work and his book. “Insight + Ideas + Impact = Innovation.”

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HR Digest

APRIL 11, 2024

From talent acquisition hacks to building a kickass company culture, these books will get you fired up to tackle the ever-evolving world of work. This list unveils the best HR books of 2024, packed with insights to help you navigate the hybrid model, understand the changing employee landscape, and future-proof your HR strategies.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Guest post by Randal Moss : Great leaders consistently talk about the need for their organization to ‘be innovative’ in their thinking. They recognize that innovation is a strategy for growth and that being able to harness that power will drive their organization’s success and their own as well. In some industries that is daunting.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 26, 2021

David Kolb and Kay Peterson, authors of How You Learn is How You Live , offer deep, research-based insights into the ideal process of learning and guide you in identifying your dominant style. How to identify your unique learning style. How to build flexibility in all nine learning styles to face any situation more effectively.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

However, the gap-closing process falls apart quickly when the company compels employees to change their behavior in order for the company to arrive at its future desired culture. His new book is Open Culture Handbook: Five Questions to Drive Engagement and Innovation (Amplify Publishing, Oct.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 5, 2013

Guest post from Shoya Zichy: Innovation is critical to an organization''s growth and competitive advantage. If you chose more items on the left, your inborn styles is that of a "structured" innovator. Structured" innovators are known for conserving resources and establishing the procedures necessary for long-term success.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A few times I enough leadership books for everyone, wrapped them, and then each person could pick a new one or “steal” one from someone else and they explained why that book was interesting to them. Engaging your team in this reflection process helps get everyone aligned—both for lessons learned and future goals.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 5, 2013

So, here is the conclusion of this article right at the start: If you want to get ahead as a problem-solver (and better, a creative problem-solver), then get a process. I agree…but while most everyone may know process is important, very few seem to actually put this into practice!

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