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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2024 curated just for you. 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. It's time to fight back.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

As the investor leader, you are becoming more familiar with tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. . A simple illustration perhaps is a CEO of a large injection molding firm, who might be well suited to a brewing and bottling company. Facebook proficiency does not qualify.

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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2020

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2020. Leadership isn't easy. They argue that this popular leadership advice glosses over the most important thing you do as a leader: build others up. Leadership isn't about you. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases.

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Leaders Lessons from an Outward Bound Wilderness Instructor

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Mark Brown: Leaders in the outdoor leadership space are quite familiar with a wilderness ethic and organization called Leave No Trace. This argument was introduced by New York Life CEO Ted Mathas , while speaking at an event hosted by Outward Bound USA that honored New York Life Foundation's work with grieving teens.

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Leadership and Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Playing for parity by traveling the traditional path of best practices just ensures one thing; you will spend great amounts of time and money failing slowly, publicly, and painfully. Stop thinking about managing the risk of technology, tools, and process improvement. The best companies don’t play catch-up – they leap-frog.

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What this CEO Learned from Having Covid-19

Skip Prichard

Though we did not travel for the holidays, and I maintained social distancing, wore a mask, washed my hands, sanitized constantly, and disinfected everything, I found that the virus somehow invaded my space anyway. Leadership Tip: Sharing personal challenges demonstrates vulnerability. Leadership Lessons from COVID -19.

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Common Purpose Leadership

Leading Blog

For example: Emphasize One Goal – Gordon Bethune, CEO of Continental Airlines, recognized that his customers valued on-time performance. Simon Cooper, president and CEO of Ritz-Carlton, calls this “scriptless service”. That’s real leadership.” Kurtzman notes, “Leadership is not coaching. And CEOs can’t do everything.