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Best Leadership Books of 2010

Leading Blog

A crisis exposes character or the lack of it. One helps to explain the artistry of leadership. The big lesson for all of us: nothing—leadership, capitalism, society—can be sustained forever in a culture of get —with a mindset of always more. Driven to Lead : Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership by Paul R.

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Why Great Leaders Are in Short Supply

Harvard Business Review

We're living with something of an irony right now regarding leadership. On the one hand, the topic has never been more studied and written about; my recent Google search for leadership research by academies and institutes returned some 375,000 hits. On the other hand, we are experiencing a dearth of leadership in society.

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