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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

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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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. Either way, this workaholic behavior is unhealthy and counterproductive for workers and for organizations. It's time to fight back.

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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2021

Leading Blog

Play Nice But Win : A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader by Michael Dell with James Kaplan. From Michael Dell, renowned founder and chief executive of one of America’s largest technology companies, the inside story of the battles that defined him as a leader. If you think you know it, think again.

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James Taylor: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

James Taylor is the CEO and a Principal Consultant of Decision Management Solutions. James is the leading expert in decision management and decisioning technologies.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Whether leading an emerging growth company or a large multi-national corporation, aside from the CEO , there is arguably no position that has impact and contribution like the CHRO. 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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News Literacy – Vivian Schiller CEO of NPR

CO2

Interview with Charlie Firestone and Vivian who is the CEO of NPR. Vivian Schiller CEO of NPR at the Aspen Institute 2010 gives insights into the importance of New Literacy. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 We are faced with a tsunami of information. About the Author As President and Co-founder of ACI Telecentrics, Inc.,

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Fueling Business Process Management with the Automation Engine that Can!

Strategy Driven

Organizations deploy automation technologies as the primary resource in their Business Process Management. Gone are the days were BPO meant Business Process Outsourcing, with Robotic Process Automation technology fueling new millennium enterprises, BPO has taken on a new meaning, Business Process Optimization.