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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. Maxwell helps leaders gain the ability and willingness to make leadership changes that will positively enhance their organizational and personal growth.

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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. When to change how you lead from @McKQuarterly. Jesper Sørensen: How to Be a More Strategic Leader via @StanfordBiz. Henry Mintzberg, the Anti-CEO , on The CEO Series radio show via @profkjmoore. 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." I am CEO between positions.

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Wait, I’m the Boss?!? The Guide for New Managers to Succeed

Skip Prichard

” -Henry Mintzberg. A great manager knows how to successfully transmit the excitement they personally feel about their company and its goals to employees, and employees get excited and energized themselves—leading to higher levels of engagement and goal attainment. (3) Figure out how to make it happen. 2) Energize.

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Office Politics Isn’t Something You Can Sit Out

Harvard Business Review

Political know-how becomes important — and those who fail to develop such skills are often the ones who get left behind. But it may take a long time for your own organization to see the light and take action, and in the meantime you have a career to manage, to say nothing of keeping your sanity. Is there a good match?