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Flashback: Best New Leadership Book Of 2014

Eric Jacobson

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best new leadership book of 2014 is, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. You’ll find the 200-page book easy to read.

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Flashback: Best New Leadership Book Of 2014

Eric Jacobson

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best leadership book for 2014 is, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. You’ll find the 200-page book easy to read.

Books 65
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Flashback To Best New Leadership Book Of 2014

Eric Jacobson

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. Question : How do you engage middle-managers to effectively reflect your philosophies?

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Best New Leadership Book Of 2014

Eric Jacobson

After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Font-Line Leader: Building a High-PerformanceOrganization from the Groumd Up , by Chris Van Gorder. Equally impressive, Van Gorder had to reinvent his career after having been injured on the job as a California police officer.

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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

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. Agility is contagious!

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John Wooden: What the Obituaries Missed

Michael Lee Stallard

The character values, or blocks of the pyramid, were: industriousness, enthusiasm, friendship, loyalty, cooperation, self-control, alertness, initiative, intentness, condition, skill, and team spirit. He required even the best players to clean up after themselves in the locker room and not to expect the student managers to do it.

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Revealing The New Realities Of Employee Engagement

Tanveer Naseer

In Hay Group’s new book, “ Leadership 2030: The Six Megatrends You Need to Understand to Lead Your Company into the Future “, we’ve identified six ‘megatrends’ that are transforming societies and the global business environment as we know it.