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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2023

Leading Blog

The immediate danger is that most employees will now operate more like independent contractors or gig workers than employees who are loyal and committed to your organization. The Song of Significance : A New Manifesto for Teams by Seth Godin What if we could create the best job someone ever had? What if we had that job?

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2019

Leading Blog

Over the years, he has helped his clients completely reinvent their operating systems—the fundamental principles and practices that shape their culture—with extraordinary success. Seth Godin says, “This is the management book of the year. Relationomics : Business Powered by Relationships Dr. Randy Ross with a Foreword by Ken Blanchard.

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Video Book Club – Beach Read Edition: Operation Mincemeat

Next Level Blog

Operation Mincemeat is a true story that reads like a novel. It’s the World War II story of how some ingenious British intelligence officers came up with a complicated and macabre plan to trick the Germans into moving their defenses away from the intended location of an Allied invasion.

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Being a Self-Aware Leader: Tasha Eurich

QAspire

Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.” – Peter Drucker, Managing Oneself. In a world where people are so busy responding to external expectations and go with the flow, it takes courage to peep within, develop insight about self, build outsight and find ways to do a more meaningful contribution.

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Leading From Who You Are (A Book Excerpt)

Lead Change Blog

Every individual in the developed world is a free agent, even though we acknowledge that many people around the world are not free. Seth Godin calls this emotional labor in his book Linchpin , quoting Arlie Hochschild. Simon Sinek has stated that we can only inspire or manipulate.

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If You’re Not Uncomfortable, You’re Not Leading

Lead Change Blog

You develop a comfort level with your discomfort. Capable, inspirational leaders repeat the getting-comfortable-with-discomfort process with every item on their personal and professional development list. “If Seth Godin, author. He indulges his comfort zone and short-changes developing his employees.

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Employee Growth: How to Better Support Team Member Development

Let's Grow Leaders

I had no intention of testing my ability to start an international leadership development company. The funny part of this story is that I “shipped my art” (my really crappy first blog) to Seth Godin that morning. The first decade of my career (and all my formal education) was about leadership development and communication.