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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2021

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Play Nice But Win : A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader by Michael Dell with James Kaplan. For the first time, Dell reveals the highs and lows of the company's evolution amidst a rapidly changing industry—and his own, as he matured into the CEO it needed.

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Weekly Round-Up: Leadership Obstacles, CEO Authenticity & more

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Are You an Authentic CEO? By: Elle Kaplan via Inc As the CEO of a mission-driven, socially-conscious firm, I’ll be the first to tell you that vision and values are crucial, but it takes more than big-picture thinking…. Check out our CEO Resource Center and get tips on how to effectively communicate as a CEO.'

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

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Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi wrote, “the fundamental role of a leader is to look for ways to shape the decades ahead, not just react to the present, and to help others accept the discomfort of disruptions to the status quo.”. At the end of the year, Korn Ferry CEO Gary Burnison releases The Five Graces of Life and Leadership.

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Four Ways To Harness Social Media For Crisis Management

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License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Four Ways To Harness Social Media For Crisis Management are those of the author Blair Kaplan Venables alone and not the CEOWORLD magazine. And with more than 2.81 billion people around the world using social media, Facebook, […].

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Why Leaders Need To Show Humility

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When a CEO becomes a household name, that CEO may well need to get his own house in order. In “ Good to Great ”, Jim Collins lamented the trend of boards that become “enamored with charismatic CEOs,” a tendency that, he concluded, was “most damaging” for “the long-term health of companies.” That’s exactly what happened at Enron.

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Four Executives on Succeeding in Business as a Woman

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Bob''s blog entries Adam Bryant Animal Planet; Amy Schulman Anne-Marie Slaughter Carol''s Daughter Doreen Lorenzo Four Executives on Succeeding in Business as a Woman Janet Yellen Lean In Lisa Price Marjorie Kaplan Pfizer Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation Sheryl Sandberg The Atlantic The Corner Office: (..)

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10 Questions to Inspire Innovation

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Future CEO. Soren Kaplan is the author of Leapfrogging and a speaker, educator, and managing principal at InnovationPoint , where he teaches leaders how to create business breakthroughs. “When you’ve visited a foreign country, what did you notice first? What did you learn from it?”. Beyond Limitations. How did you benefit?”.