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Cascades: 6 Principles for Creating Transformational Change

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T HE NATURE OF POWER has shifted from top-down to the center of networks. 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.”. The more central you become, the more power you have.

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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 Power of Pull : How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison. Katzenbach and Zia Khan. Kouzes and Barry Z.

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