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Best Leadership Books of 2010

Leading Blog

A crisis exposes character or the lack of it. Leading Outside the Lines : How to Mobilize the Informal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get Better Results by Jon R. Our reaction is important. Our recent history requires a response; a correction; a change in the status quo. Katzenbach and Zia Khan.

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Putting the Right Information on Twitter in a Crisis

Harvard Business Review

I became curious about what this impulse might mean for all the users hitting “refresh” on their feeds and for the crisis response managers feeding announcements and information into the stream. She is also a principle investigator on two NSF-funded projects on communicating with the public during crisis events.

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Why Great Leaders Are in Short Supply

Harvard Business Review

Perhaps it's really not so ironic that there would be this inverse relationship: the deeper we sink into leadership crisis, the more it shows up on the agendas of think tanks and conferences. Even more seem to have run out of ideas, or simply appear unable to craft the necessary consensus to lead.

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