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First Look: Leadership Books for December 2017

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December. Impromptu : Leading in the Moment by Judith Humphrey. The Art of Learning and Self-Development : Your Competitive Edge by Jim Stovall and Raymond H. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 39 titles.

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You Unplugged: Prepare to be Spontaneous

Leading Blog

Judith Humphrey writes in Impromptu: Leading in the Moment , that “you must prepare to be spontaneous.” Because we don’t, it’s “not surprising that our daily conversations are often not geared to leadership and our encounters can be less than inspiring.”. You also need to keep your key leadership messages in mind.

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Pitch the PowerPoint – and Speak as an Impromptu Leader

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Judith Humphrey: In my career as a corporate “ghost writer,” I produced a ton of speeches and PowerPoint presentations for senior executives. And that world of leadership now includes far more than the top executives. Today, leadership is not determined by title or rank. All that has changed.

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The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success

Strategy Driven

The Petrified Forest , starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Henry Fonda. Among those crown jewel TV moments were: Our Town , starring Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint. Requiem for a Heavyweight , the premiere of “Playhouse 90.” It was written by Rod Sterling and starred Jack Palance and Ed Wynn.

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Brazil and the MORE Project

Chris Brady

Posted by: Amy A | March 23, 2010 at 02:09 PM Is that the African Queen you are riding in up river, did you feel like Humphrey Bogart? Main | Teach Me What to Think » March 22, 2010 Brazil and the MORE Project  Just getting back from a whirl-wind tour of the MORE Project in Brazil. Did Terry feel like Kathrine Hepburn?

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Caption Contest 2010.7 (Scam Orrin Woodward and Me out of a free.

Chris Brady

The winner will receive an autographed copy of Orrin Woodward and my book: Launching a Leadership Revolution (for free, as in nada, nothing, zippo, we'll just give it to you! Posted by: mark humphrey | November 20, 2010 at 09:28 PM "Look Honey, no hands." Scam Orrin Woodward and Me out of a free book!)

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Your Nice Boss May Be Killing Your Career

Harvard Business Review

He reminded me of what Jim Hacker (the fictional politician in the English cult classic " Yes, Minister ") said to his bureaucratic colleague, "You really are a wet blanket, Humphrey, you just go around stirring up apathy.". The majority of the leadership literature over the past 25 years has done this.

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