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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

The book offers a concrete framework to help individuals of all levels, functions, and backgrounds take charge of their own leadership development and become the best leaders they can be. Lencioni Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players.

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Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Strategy Driven

In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. Systems fail to reach their full potential and people become frustrated, which results in pushback, absenteeism, and low productivity.

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Getting People to Believe in Something They Can’t Yet Imagine

Harvard Business Review

Cancel further funding for the project in favor of developing an updated version of an existing company product? Traditional influencing theory — as expounded, for example, by Robert Cialdini in Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion — offers “invoking authority” as a way to persuade others to support things that are new to them.