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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2019

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2019. Maxwell helps leaders gain the ability and willingness to make leadership changes that will positively enhance their organizational and personal growth. Bedtime Stories for Managers : Farewell, Lofty Leadership. In Leadershift, John C.

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LeadershipNow 140: June 2015 Compilation

Leading Blog

Leadership is Not Something We Accomplish by @StrategicMonk. Leadership Success: Think Balance Beam Not Mountain Top by @KateNasser. The Most Important Career Decision of Your Life: Stepping Up to Leadership from @DDIworld. The 15 Diseases of Leadership, According to Pope Francis by @profhamel. Can You Manage Up?

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Powering with Passion and Teaming with Energy

The Practical Leader

Denise balances management and leadership very effectively. He’s the poster boy for making STEMM leadership an oxymoron. Is Your Leadership Engaging or Enraging? Work with your team members to get their input on how their jobs can be enriched and broadened to align with their personal strengths, passions, and career goals.

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

To most of us, mentors are people of experience and knowledge who help the less experienced advance their careers and/or their education. In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO.

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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. Ian Hamilton "Managing without managers," Ricardo Semler The collection articles emphasize that Leadership is messy and there is no right answer.

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

Skip Prichard

s “Leadership Guy” because of his many articles on that platform. How I wish we had an entire day to talk about management and leadership. ” -Henry Mintzberg. Leadership Tip: Great managers are great communicators. Over the course of a 40-year career, this amounts to average of $900,000 in lost earnings. [2]

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Management Excellence Book Review: Management? It’s Not What You Think

Management Excellence

by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel. Also, there’s the reality that many management books struggle to adequately fill the space between the book-covers, offering up their best in the introduction, the first chapter and the wrap-up chapter. Here are my thoughts on: Management? It's Not What You Think!