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First Look: Leadership Books for March 2020

Leading Blog

Create the Future + the Innovation Handbook : Tactics for Disruptive Thinking by Jeremy Gutsche. It combines Jeremy's high energy provocative thinking with tactics that have been battle tested through projects with leading innovators like Disney, Starbucks, Amex, IBM, Adidas, Google, and NASA.

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Make Change Work

Leading Blog

Make Change Work by Randy Pennington is a change handbook informed by a good grasp of human nature. Pennington presents the well-reasoned, tactical side of change while incorporating the emotional—“it depends”—side of change leadership. And that takes real leadership. In that regard it is an invaluable book for anyone at any level.

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Do you have Moxie?

Leading Blog

Baldoni breaks moxie down into five characteristics that you can practice and develop to be a leader that demonstrates moxie. Preparing and developing yourself now sets you up to make better decisions when you do get knocked down. Baldoni also provides an appendix that works as a handbook to guide you in this. Street Smarts.

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How We Closed the Gap Between Men’s and Women’s Retention Rates

Harvard Business Review

It’s a model that’s increasingly used in companies of all kinds looking to accelerate the development of their high-potential people. As in many fast-paced companies today, consulting staff operate without formal job descriptions or handbooks. We gave tactical suggestions for how managers could do this (e.g.,

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We Say We Want Privacy Online, But Our Actions Say Otherwise

Harvard Business Review

And it is also evident in commerce — when asked , most consumers say they reject behavioral targeting gleaned from online behavior by companies, yet research suggests that the tactic can be highly effective. Yet companies first need to understand how consumers think about their privacy online, which isn’t entirely rationally.

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How to Ask for a Promotion

Harvard Business Review

Show your manager that “you’re working hard to develop someone else,” he says. This tactic often has a “negative impact on relationships” and “artificially promotes people who are not ready to be promoted” in the first place, she says. The handbook was rolled out company-wide.).

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

The context we lead in requires nothing short of radical personal development. It is structured so that you can thoughtfully and tactically look at each of these areas to see where you can better prepare yourself. Baldoni also provides an appendix that works as a handbook to guide you in this. Blog Post ).

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