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First Look: Leadership Books for January 2022

Leading Blog

Win from Within : Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage by James Heskett. James Heskett provides a roadmap for achievable and fast-paced culture change. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2022. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

Yet, without the right culture, organizations cannot succeed short term, nor can they endure. With the ever-changing dynamics of the workforce, the stewardship of organizational culture is just as important as strategy, talent, product development, or customer service. You develop a first-class organization by winning hearts and minds.

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What Great Companies Know About Culture

Harvard Business Review

Heskett wrote in his latest book The Culture Cycle , effective culture can account for 20-30 percent of the differential in corporate performance when compared with "culturally unremarkable" competitors. Being a great workplace is the result of a long-term investment in their employees.

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To Be an Authentic Leader, Practice Every Day - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DISNEY INSTITUTE

Harvard Business Review

” In the Leadership Excellence professional development course, we teach participants that if leadership is demonstrated through actions then, ultimately, every leader is telling a story about what he or she values by the way he or she behaves. .” Do not try to be someone you are not for a short-term gain (e.g.,