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First Look: Leadership Books for December 2019

Leading Blog

The Amazon Management System : The Ultimate Digital Business Engine That Creates Extraordinary Value for Both Customers and Shareholders by Ram Charan and Julia Yang. The Power of Bad : How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It by John Tierney and Roy F. What has propelled their record streak of growth? Baumeister.

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Trust – the key to success

Lead on Purpose

As I began reading them it didn’t take me long to realize the power of this book. Without trust, you get nowhere.&# – Jack Trout “Everything in marketing points to the reality that the profitable companies are those that have earned the confidence of their public. Trust is the glue.

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Ideation and Entrepreneurship: Interview with Liz Alexander and Naveen Lakkur

QAspire

The book is short but powerful enough to help entrepreneurs and ideators in bringing their ideas to life by following a proven five part framework. What entrepreneurs should always look for is to offer a solution that fills a current or potential market need, rather than create a solution that’s looking for a problem to solve.

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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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The Promise and Peril of a Star CEO

Harvard Business Review

Ten years later, it could produce, albeit with extraordinary measures, 5,000 cars a month and had a higher market value than Ford’s. Within the company, Musk has held unusual power; he is the largest stockholder in Tesla, and is positioned as a visionary genius who is essential to the company’s success.

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Leaders, Choose Your Words Wisely

Harvard Business Review

My professor, Ram Charan, noticed that my schoolwork was starting to slip. I asked him if he could help me find my way back to the marketing department. His pointed the way and said, "So you work in the marketing department. This was a very powerful lesson, delivered in four words. I was stretched pretty thin.

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Microsoft’s Next CEO: How the Board Can Get It Right

Harvard Business Review

All have served at or near the pinnacle of company power, and they now bring that experience to judging who has the requisite skill-set to lead the world’s largest software maker in a fast-morphing market. Luczo, chairman and CEO of Seagate, and Charles H. Noski, former CFO of Bank of America. Boards Microsoft Succession planning'

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