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First Look: Leadership Books for December 2019

Leading Blog

Become : The 5 Commitments of Purposeful Leadership by Mark Hannum. The Amazon Management System : The Ultimate Digital Business Engine That Creates Extraordinary Value for Both Customers and Shareholders by Ram Charan and Julia Yang. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases.

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CEOs work to keep key employees

Coaching Tip

Chief executives should act now to prevent defections of key employees next year, says veteran management adviser Ram Charan. Ram Charan, an expert and author on developing corporate talent , shown earlier this month during an interview with The Wall Street Journal. Top management's serious lack of time commitment and energy.

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The 6 Passages of Leadership and Management

Great Leadership By Dan

Charan, Drotter, and Noel wrote about six leadership passages in their classic book The Leadership Pipeline. It involves getting to know each team member and learning how to inspire commitment, energize, and harness the individual and collective passion of the team. There’s a progression of passages, or at least there should be.

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Trust – the key to success

Lead on Purpose

This is the first book that teaches the ‘whats’ and the ‘hows’ of trust.&# – Ram Charan “After you turn off the projector, quit PowerPoint, and end your pitch, most deals come down to a simple question: Do you trust each other? Trust is the glue. Followers trust it’s the right direction.

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Ideation and Entrepreneurship: Interview with Liz Alexander and Naveen Lakkur

QAspire

You have to have a strong heart and a huge amount of commitment to succeed as an entrepreneur—in fact, any kind of ideator. That’s just one of the five parts of the FOUND process and all of them are essential as a discipline to follow if an entrepreneur (or intrapreneur) wants to confirm they have a market that will pay for their solution.

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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Your upcoming leaders will need to understand how to do business internationally – international laws and regulations for doing business in various countries, cultural differences, the ability to gauge the market overseas including identifying market for product or services and the competition, developing overseas offices, leading virtually, etc.

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Do Not Split HR – At Least Not Ram Charan’s Way

Harvard Business Review

Much of Charan’s recent work has tilted towards organization and people (books on strategy execution, leadership pipeline, talent and advice on intensity, change, leadership traits, performance management, governance). Charan’s latest column actually affirms the value of HR to sustained competitiveness.

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