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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2021

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Play Nice But Win : A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader by Michael Dell with James Kaplan. What emerges is the long-term vision underpinning his success: that technology is ultimately about people and their potential. While fear can drive short-term results, it does so at the cost of high employee burnout and turnover.

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Thoughts on the Presidency

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But then as now, there is no greater attribute for a ruler than humility built on an accurate assessment of his own limits, from which the finest cunning emerges.” — Robert Kaplan, Warrior Politics. “In

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

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It leads to short-term thinking. What has emerged from these conversations is that while everyone’s experiences under pressure are unique, pressure follows patterns and develops in predictable ways. The result is that our beliefs get brittle long before our bones. It also undermines long-term business performance.

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Creating A Purpose-Driven Corporation

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Corporate financing should be of a form and duration that allows companies to fund more engaged and long-term investment in their purposes. Despite this, there is a growing desire for corporations to be better stakeholders, with Wharton’s Sarah Kaplan outlining as much in her latest book, The 360° Corporation.

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

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This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Others experience the inherent tension but let short-term goals and fire-fighting consume their lives – at the expense of preparing for and positioning themselves for the future. Innovation innovation kaplan Leadership' Some leaders consciously acknowledge this fundamental paradox.

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Why Leaders Need To Show Humility

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In “ Good to Great ”, Jim Collins lamented the trend of boards that become “enamored with charismatic CEOs,” a tendency that, he concluded, was “most damaging” for “the long-term health of companies.” Kaplan worked for 25 years at Newsweek and Fortune. Reproduced by permission of AMACOM. All rights reserved.

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

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This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Others experience the inherent tension but let short-term goals and fire-fighting consume their lives – at the expense of preparing for and positioning themselves for the future. They’re say that since they’re not “measured” on long-term innovation they must live and die by quarterly results.