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First Look: Leadership Books for April 2023

Leading Blog

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in April 2023 curated just for you. The Wisdom of the Bullfrog : Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy) by Admiral William H. The Anxious Achiever is a book with a mission: to normalize anxiety and leadership. It can—and should—be harnessed into a force for good.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2023

Leading Blog

Martin's Press, 2023) In The Art of Clear Thinking , Hasard Lee distills what he’s learned during his career flying some of the Air Force’s most advanced aircraft. The Leap to Leader is your trusted playbook for making the biggest jump of your career. Change is not the exception, it’s the rule.

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LeadershipNow 140: June 2023 Compilation

Leading Blog

Podcast: @jamesstrock interviews Richard Norton Smith author of An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R.

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An Ordinary Man: Gerald R. Ford

Leading Blog

Richard Norton Smith’s extraordinary biography of Gerald Ford, An Ordinary Man , pulls together multiple perspectives to give essential insights into Ford’s thinking and leadership. By stressing individual contacts over ideological mandates, Ford defines leadership in transactional terms, constituent service on a grand scale.

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The 5 Things All Great Salespeople Do

Harvard Business Review

I’ve spent 16 years in technology sales, with most of that spent in sales leadership at Salesforce and other technology companies. I used to give a speech to new salespeople, earlier in my career, titled the “It’s your fault speech.” Regardless of where you are in your career, there is someone else you can help.

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The Surprising Secret to Selling Yourself

Harvard Business Review

A set of ingenious studies conducted by Stanford's Zakary Tormala and Jayson Jia, and Harvard Business School's Michael Norton paint a very clear picture of our unconscious preference for potential over actual success. Tormala, Jia, and Norton found the same pattern when they looked at evaluations of job candidates.

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What Investment Bankers Can Learn From Stand-Up Comedians

Harvard Business Review

Look at headlining comics Jim Norton and Robert Kelly. Younger employees daunted by a task can be inspired by those they work for if their superiors share their own struggles from early in their career. The leadership lesson here? Brutal honesty. How does this trait manifest in the comedy world?

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