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10 Books You Should Read This Summer 2023

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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

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Podcast: @jamesstrock interviews Richard Norton Smith author of An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford If AI Is Reading Your Mind, What Will It Learn?

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First Look: Leadership Books for April 2023

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Ford by Richard Norton Smith From the preeminent presidential scholar and acclaimed biographer of historical figures including George Washington, Herbert Hoover, and Nelson Rockefeller comes this eye-opening life of Gerald R. An Ordinary Man : The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R.

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On Stupid Ideas

Lead Change Blog

Seth Godin, Tribes I recently completed The Power of Starting Something Stupid by Richie Norton with Natalie Norton. Community Involvement Self Leadership Commitment government ideas Leadership Development risk Stupid Ideas' As the authors state in the subtitle, starting something stupid is a great way to crush fear, [.].

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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. G ERALD FORD was an inner-directed leader that gave him quiet strength. He didn’t indulge his ego. Ford had moral authority because he lived his values. ‘I

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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

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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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