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10 Books You Should Read This Summer 2023

Leading Blog

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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First Look: Leadership Books for April 2023

Leading Blog

THE WISDOM OF THE BULLFROG draws on these and countless other experiences from Admiral McRaven’s incredible life, including crisis situations, management debates, organizational transitions, and ethical dilemmas, to provide readers with the most important leadership lessons he has learned over the course of his forty years of service.

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The Strategy Book

Leading Blog

Second, there are some of the most influential tools from the field of strategy and management. Third, there are tools that I have found valuable in my work with some of the most successful organisations in the world."

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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

Norton (creators of the Balanced Scorecard) offer their insights concerning the "rules" of successful strategy execution: The failure to balance the tensions between strategy and operations (execution) is pervasive. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Kaplan and Dr. David P. Discipline I.

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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

Norton (creators of the Balanced Scorecard) offer their insights concerning the "rules" of successful strategy execution: The failure to balance the tensions between strategy and operations (execution) is pervasive. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Kaplan and Dr. David P. Discipline I.

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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

Change management, which is taught, has been the default approach for strategy execution, but it is a subset of execution and more importantly does not work for implementing corporate strategy. There are only a few options such as Palladium Execution Premium Process™ (XPP ) developed by Drs. Norton and their Palladium associates.

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