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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2019

Leading Blog

He does this by sharing the eleven shifts he made over the course of his long and successful leadership career. Welcome, Engaging Management Henry Mintzberg. Dougherty, editor-at-large at Princeton University Press. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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LeadershipNow 140: June 2015 Compilation

Leading Blog

The Most Important Career Decision of Your Life: Stepping Up to Leadership from @DDIworld. Henry Mintzberg, the Anti-CEO , on The CEO Series radio show via @profkjmoore. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Ready or Not, Here Comes Algorithmic HR by @watkinsmichael. Can You Manage Up?

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Powering with Passion and Teaming with Energy

The Practical Leader

As he did so often throughout his long career, the “father of modern management,” Peter Drucker, gets to the heart of effective leadership; “Increasingly ’employees’ have to be managed as partners… partners cannot be ordered. These leaders do it with their partners, rather than doing it to or for them.

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Management - Its not what you Think

CEO Blog

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Sunday, January 02, 2011 Management - Its not what you Think Management - Its Not What You Think is a book of articles edited and complied by Henry Mintzberg. I always knew that my career at the Air Maple Leaf call center would lead to great things." email jimestill at gmailWarning.

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Political games in organizations: the ones other people play. Not.

Roundtable Talk

Using materials provided by our colleagues at Coaching Ourselves , our lively group of mid-career leaders explored the topic of politics in organizations and reinforced my own view that “playing the game” is a daily reality in organizations… and may even spill over into your personal life. Whether you’re aware of it or not. Happy leading!

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Are Business Schools Clueless or Evil?

Harvard Business Review

Since the collapse of Enron, through the financial crisis, to the insider trading and LIBOR scandals, the question just keeps recurring: How did those institutions of higher learning, whose claim is to develop business leaders, influence the conduct of leaders who let so many people down?

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Office Politics Isn’t Something You Can Sit Out

Harvard Business Review

Yet, most also know that developing political competence is not a choice; it’s a necessity. Political know-how becomes important — and those who fail to develop such skills are often the ones who get left behind. Ask most people about workplace politics and they’ll say they’d prefer to avoid it. It happens.