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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

We've traveled far and fast from the old world of business ethics, where black-and-white concerns about bribery and fraud could be addressed via rules and processes. Uncommon Greatness is the key many leaders have been searching for their entire career. Former Vice President of High Performance Leadership at Chick-fil-A, Inc.,

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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

The Key to Business and Career Success. Effective leaders know how to achieve operational excellence, and they embrace continuous improvement. Effective leaders set the right tone at the top, which becomes the organization’s ethical standards. It’s through differentiation that you or your business become successful.

Silverman 108
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Are You Ready for Recovery?

Leading Blog

A Transpersonal Leader operates beyond their own ego and personal drivers and balances the needs of all the organization’s stakeholders. This means they are making decisions in full consciousness of their sense of purpose, ethics, and values. Anybody can travel the path to Transpersonal Leadership.

McKinsey 294
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October 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared Tips to Radiate Executive Presence on Video Conference Calls. Marcella considers: “ Engage – travel guide for change adventurers, is a great book for anyone looking at organizational change. ” Connect with Marcia on Twitter at @marciareynolds.

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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better. A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. The principle then travels down through the various functions, and ends at sea level with an individual’s daily “to do list.”

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The May, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

I once heard Tom Peters saying that if you are a business traveler, you learn the most not from the corporate executives but from the cab drivers. How can we help leaders deal with complexity and respond to it with ethical behavior? Linda Fisher Thornton , from Leading in Context offers Leading Ethically Through Complexity.

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Two Elements for Effective Delegation

Marshall Goldsmith

Kill morale, careers, and even a company. Honest, ethical, and legal behavior is always appropriate—delegation isn’t. Delegation killed morale, careers, and the company. In one example, a CEO was frequently traveling. The company was operating in a rapidly changing environment. So what do you do, kill delegation?