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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

More often it's an implicit contract, a buildup of organizational and cultural norms and the adoption of new technologies that make it easy to tether people to work. Uncommon Greatness is the key many leaders have been searching for their entire career. It's time to fight back.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. Emerging technologies, changing demographics, the data economy, automation, and other trends-the undercurrents of radical, systemic change-are crashing into each other. Blog Post ).

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Impatiently Patient

QAspire

But things that we build organically like health, finances, relationships, career etc. Thanks to Mike Taylor for featuring my sketchnote/post on “ Three L’s from Self-Directed Learning: Insights from my first TEDx talk ” in his latest round-up of Best in Learning, Design and Technology. don’t work that way.

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Dehumanizing with AI, Automation, and Technical Optimization

The Practical Leader

In the early 1900s, Frederick Taylor, used “Scientific Management” principles to make the new production lines more efficient. Last year, I facilitated a planning retreat with a back-to-the-future technology colossus. He said technical and analytical skills were the key to career advancement at their company.

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Stop Measuring Employee Loyalty By Tenure: 5 Steps to Creating a Boomerang Culture

Great Leadership By Dan

Employees today know that they can’t count on a company to take care of them, and that they need to craft their own career with building blocks of job experiences that keep them relevant, and increasingly valuable. Add to that their desire to be both interested in and satisfied with the impact of their work.

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Losing Touch with These 5 Leadership Principles Leads to Communication Failures

The Practical Leader

A well-known line uttered by a desperate sailor in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is, “water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” Many people are looking for what’s new in quick-fix communication tools, technologies, programs, or workshops. Constant improvement.