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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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Made From Scratch

Leading Blog

But then founder Kent Taylor is not a conventional guy. Throughout the book, his colleagues, friends, and family members weigh in on Taylor’s remarkable journey, and at the end of each chapter, he summarizes lessons he had learned along the way. He dropped out of business school and threw away the rule book.

Taylorism 304
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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Take stock of the progressive development plans and programs they’ve made available to the workforce. Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. and a development manager at Oracle Corp.

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3 Keys For Building Relationships With Those You Lead

Tanveer Naseer

That we no longer view employees through the lens of Fredrick Taylor’s scientific approach to management – where people are merely assets, and interactions are transactional in nature. Rather, it’s about those connections, those bonds we develop and nurture with our employees.

Bond 279
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Footwashing for Leaders

Leading Blog

Fast Company cofounder Bill Taylor argues in Are You “Humbitious” Enough to Lead? Oddly, the ones operating under a delusion that they are all-powerful are the ones who have yet to reach their potential. [So] Humility is all about perspective. They seek success—they are ambitious—but they are humbled when it arrives. So] be ambitious.

Taylorism 284
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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

This ‘camouflage’ approach ensures that change agents operate seamlessly within the organization, making their efforts more effective and less susceptible to dismissal. To counter this, it is vital to foster relationships with influential figures within the organization and promote change that aligns with its core values (Lewis, 2017).

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Secure leadership for an insecure economy

Chartered Management Institute

That means just under one in five of the country’s working population are at risk of irregular shift patterns, last-minute changes that dictate their income and a lack of development opportunities or paid sick leave. Roles are often offered and operated via apps. In hospitality, there is very little regard to development”.