Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This time each year, I select from all the leadership books I read during the year my pick for the best new leadership book of the year. It was a tough choice, so for 2022, I'm picking two books: Both books are timely, highly relevant, full of great teachings and well worth reading for leaders at any stage of their careers.

Books 79

Books Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing 79

LDRLB

JANUARY 12, 2011

Hsieh’s (2010) theory is that if you build ways for employees to take control over their career futures into organizational design, one lucky by-product is that these employees will be happier. In essence, Zappos created a structure that is designed to keep employees in control of their careers. New York: Business Plus.

Decentralization 88

Decentralization Competitive Advantage Career Entrepreneur 88

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

General Charles Jacoby is a military leader whose career culminated as four-star Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. The combination of business and military leadership experience added insight and perspective to their book. . Leadership Practices to Watch. Northern Command. Take a smart risk.

Agility 89

Agility How To Decentralization Morale 89

Nathan Magnuson

OCTOBER 19, 2015

companies invest over $2,000 in leadership development initiatives per company leader. Just because an organization has a leadership development program doesn’t mean it’s successful, does it? No Organizational Leadership Vision. Because of this, you must have your own leadership vision. Both are big mistakes.

Leadership Development 120

Leadership Development Development Leadership Attrition 120

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The President and I apologized to the President and Prime Minister of Iraq, and that helped limit the damage, along with redoubled training on the need for sensitivity to religious, cultural, and ethnic issues.” They need to be focused on attracting the right people and training them to make the right decisions.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Decentralization Venture Capitalist After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Toward a New Leadership Agenda. Leading energy companies are investing in decentralized energy grids, demonstrating the broad feasibility of such approaches. Finding effective and affordable ways to help people acquire transferable skills during their careers, not just before they start out, is a large social challenge.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

This is likely to require decentralizing the structure of our organizations, with smaller teams given greater autonomy to act, experiment and learn. The insights from these teams should then be allowed to flow up and around the organization to spread learning throughout.

Competitive Advantage 50

Competitive Advantage Kaizen Technology Learning-by-Doing 50