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Business lessons to be learned from a video game, Angry Birds

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is another excellent article featured online by the Drucker Exchange (DX) within the Drucker Institute at Claremont Business University.

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Spinning Yarns

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is a recent article featured by the Drucker Exchange (DX), “an ongoing conversation about bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership,&# sponsored by The Drucker Institute of Claremont Graduate University.

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Birds do it, bees do it, even members of the faculty do it

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an article written by Zach First, the Drucker Institute’s managing director. To check out all the resources at the Drucker Institute and sign up for its free online newsletter, please click here. link] * * * Not long ago, I’d have guessed that research university professors would rank last on the list of [.].

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The Way the Cookie Crumbles

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an article featured by the Drucker Exchange, sponsored by The Drucker Institute. To check out the wealth of free resources and sign up for the DX newsletter, please click here. * * * Of all the news making headlines today—civil unrest in Egypt, the Dow briefly topping 12,000 on Wednesday, Toyota’s latest vehicle [.].

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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

Autonomy is a key one that impacts leaders’ positions and roles which has been found to be a critical component for increasing employee engagement and thence productivity, as noted already by Peter Drucker decades ago, especially in relation to knowledge workers.

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Powering with Passion and Teaming with Energy

The Practical Leader

As he did so often throughout his long career, the “father of modern management,” Peter Drucker, gets to the heart of effective leadership; “Increasingly ’employees’ have to be managed as partners… partners cannot be ordered. These leaders do it with their partners, rather than doing it to or for them.

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Infinite Vision - Looks Like a Great Book @bkpub

Management Craft

I received my monthly newsletter from Berrett-Koehler publishers yesterday and this book seems really interesting and might be a perfect one to kick off the new year with renewed purpose, drive, and meaning. Here is the description from the newsletter: Infinite Vision. Why Read It?

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