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First Look: Leadership Books for April 2023

Leading Blog

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in April 2023 curated just for you. The Wisdom of the Bullfrog : Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy) by Admiral William H. The Anxious Achiever is a book with a mission: to normalize anxiety and leadership. It can—and should—be harnessed into a force for good.

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10 Books You Should Read This Summer 2023

Leading Blog

Here are ten suggestions for books to inspire you and help to grow your leadership. Ford by Richard Norton Smith - (April 2023) The Wisdom of the Bullfrog : Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy) by Admiral William H.

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LeadershipNow 140: June 2023 Compilation

Leading Blog

Podcast: @jamesstrock interviews Richard Norton Smith author of An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R.

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On Stupid Ideas

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Community Involvement Self Leadership In a battle between two ideas… the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it. Seth Godin, Tribes I recently completed The Power of Starting Something Stupid by Richie Norton with Natalie Norton.

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An Ordinary Man: Gerald R. Ford

Leading Blog

Richard Norton Smith’s extraordinary biography of Gerald Ford, An Ordinary Man , pulls together multiple perspectives to give essential insights into Ford’s thinking and leadership. By stressing individual contacts over ideological mandates, Ford defines leadership in transactional terms, constituent service on a grand scale.

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Richie Norton on The Power of Starting Something Stupid

Rajesh Setty

It was great way to start the second half of 2013 with a phone conversation with Richie Norton , the author of The Power of Starting Something Stupid. Some said I was “stupid” or “crazy” for going after this dream to help people start businesses in developing countries, but I persisted. Have a great week ahead.

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The Strategy Book

Leading Blog

The tools include: SWOT analysis, Porter's 5 forces of competition, McKinsey's 7-S framework, BCG’s product portfolio matrix, Kim and Mauborgne's blue ocean, Kaplan and Norton's balanced scorecard, Mintzberg’s deliberate and emergent, Prahalad's bottom of the pyramid and twenty-one more. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal (..)

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