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Leadership Lessons From Kent Taylor, Founder Of Texas Roadhouse

Eric Jacobson

From cover-to-cover of Made From Scratch you’ll learn the leadership lessons of the late Kent Taylor , founder of the restaurant chain Texas Roadhouse. In the new book, Taylor recounts how he built the restaurant chain from the ground up after being rejected more than 80 times as he pitched the idea for the business.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

Learned Excellence is a comprehensive and practical guide to the mental disciplines of high performance, from the expert who developed the US Navy SEALs mental toughness curriculum and has worked with thousands of top athletes, elite military personnel, business executives, and first responders. It's time to fight back.

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A Leader’s Guide To Work In An Age Of Upheaval

Eric Jacobson

Taylor, Jr. Taylor, the CEO and President of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), shares his personal experiences and candid, compassionate and practical thoughts on how to transform the way to select, retain and train employees in today’s, post-COVID and radically changed business environment. Taylor, Jr.

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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2021

Leading Blog

Most organizations have created always-on work contexts that are burning people out and hurting performance rather than delivering productivity, innovation and engagement. Radical Product Thinking : The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter by Radhika Dutt. They catch “product diseases” that often kill innovation.

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Executive Coaches : Unleashing Potential

CO2

This blog post delves into the transformative journey of leadership development through the lens of executive coaching. The Evolution and Impact of Executive Coaching Executive coaches have been instrumental in the evolution of coaching as a dynamic and innovative practice in leadership development.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

What has emerged from these conversations is that while everyone’s experiences under pressure are unique, pressure follows patterns and develops in predictable ways. Outside of the SEALs, he’s run meetings in the White House Situation Room, negotiated international arms treaties, and developed high-impact corporate strategies.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.