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First Look: Leadership Books for April 2024

Leading Blog

Co-Intelligence : Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick Something new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of creative, innovative work that only humans could do previously. Why is having a mentor crucial to success?

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Workplace Equality Improves When Women Mentor Men

The Horizons Tracker

A recent study from Concordia University revealed that mentoring often helps the mentor as much as the mentee. This is largely due to the leadership skills the mentors gain through the activity. The authors suggest that the more mentors actually provided mentoring support, the more they saw themselves as leaders.

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Bad Boss Behaviors Cause #3: Needing What We Should Be Leading

Modern Servant Leader

Consider Enron , the 2008 financial crisis , and most major corporate failures. Mentoring Programs: Ensure your leaders have mentoring relationships. Mentoring enables leaders to bounce ideas off others while networking up. Should is the key word.

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Why Your Professional Relationships are Important for Your Career Success

Lead from Within

Interacting with colleagues, mentors, and industry peers exposes you to diverse perspectives, insights, and knowledge. Collaboration and Innovation: Collaboration often leads to innovation, and professional relationships are the foundation of successful collaborations.

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Beyond Boundaries: An Interview on Leadership and Innovation with Lisa Chang

HR Digest

Chang discusses her journey from HR to a product lead role, the identity crisis she faced, and the profound realization that led her back to HR, where her passion for making a positive business impact through people could thrive. The conversation delves into HR innovations, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence.

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The Leader's Role in Crisis - a Guest Post from John Baldoni

Kevin Eikenberry

Leaders Need To Involve Themselves In Crises by John Baldoni (posted 10/17/10) Failure to respond to a crisis is a failure of leadership. Initially Tony Hayward, then CEO of BP, was actively engaged in the crisis. Then curiously, likely on the advise of legal counsel, he pulled back and seemed unable to manage the crisis.

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Has lockdown improved your leadership thinking?

Lead Change Blog

Our current health crisis provides an ideal opportunity, and yet I wonder how many leaders and managers are truly taking advantage of it or will continue with it, post-COVID? Find yourself a coach, mentor, or non-line management supervisor. But where does that hamster-wheel activity lead? How productive is it? Does it add value?