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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. Relationomics : Business Powered by Relationships Dr. Randy Ross with a Foreword by Ken Blanchard. Welcome, Engaging Management Henry Mintzberg. But you won't find talking rabbits or princesses here.

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Powering with Passion and Teaming with Energy

The Practical Leader

Denise uses the power of persuasion to make people want to. Joel uses position power to make people have to. 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. Denise cares about people.

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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. Henry Mintzberg, the Anti-CEO , on The CEO Series radio show via @profkjmoore. A Powerful Way to Gain the Trust of Your Team by Karin Hurt @LetsGrowLeaders. From @JohnBaldoni Pope Francis: The Power Of A Smile. Can You Manage Up?

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To P or Not to P: Does Your Purpose Provoke Passion?

The Practical Leader

Many more people are searching beyond a job or career to find a calling. McGill University management professor and author, Henry Mintzberg said, “an organization without human commitment is like a person without a soul: Skeleton, flesh, and blood may be able to consume and to excrete, but there is no life force.”

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

Skip Prichard

” -Henry Mintzberg. The most successful managers understand that one of their key jobs is to support their people—to provide them with the training, coaching, and other things they need to gain the experience and responsibility they need to do the best job possible and to progress in their careers. ” -John Wooden.

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Political games in organizations: the ones other people play. Not.

Roundtable Talk

Using materials provided by our colleagues at Coaching Ourselves , our lively group of mid-career leaders explored the topic of politics in organizations and reinforced my own view that “playing the game” is a daily reality in organizations… and may even spill over into your personal life. Happy leading! Bookmark the permalink.

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Office Politics Isn’t Something You Can Sit Out

Harvard Business Review

Formally sanctioned rules are only invoked when convenient to those with power. 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. In-groups and out-groups are usually well defined. Is there a good match?