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Best Leadership Books of 2010

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Leading Outside the Lines : How to Mobilize the Informal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get Better Results by Jon R. The Executive and the Elephant : A Leader's Guide for Achieving Inner Excellence by Richard L. Bury My Heart at Conference Room B : The Unbeatable Impact of Truly Committed Managers by Stan Slap.

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Cascades: 6 Principles for Creating Transformational Change

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As Niall Ferguson observed in The Square and the Tower , “Often the biggest changes in history are the achievements of thinly documented, informally organized groups of people.”. For example, there was a long tradition of IBM executives dressing formally in a suit and tie. He recalls: At IBM we had lost sight of our values.