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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2023

Leading Blog

The Leap to Leader : How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership by Adam Bryant The chasm separating managers from leaders is widening as the skills required to be an effective leader grow in number and complexity. Middle manager." Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month.

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How Royal DSM Is Improving Its Geographic and Gender Diversity

Harvard Business Review

. “I’m absolutely convinced that the evolving balance of the top management team is a key factor in our success and our ability to change,” Feike Sijbesma, the 57-year-old CEO of Royal DSM, the $8 billion, global company active in health, nutrition and materials science, told me. How did he do it?

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75% of Cross-Functional Teams Are Dysfunctional

Harvard Business Review

As one middle manager told me, “No one was willing to go to management and say, ‘Let’s redeploy everyone, including myself, and do something else because this project isn’t working.'” As they learn to work as a team, that attitude perpetuates itself in the teams under their purview.

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