Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2020. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases. Teaching by Heart : One Professor's Journey to Inspire by Thomas J. DeLong. Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than forty years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down.

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 1, 2020

By Linda Fisher Thornton. Of the 52 individual posts published on the Leading in Context Blog in 2019, these 10 were the most popular.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 1, 2020

A team struggled with people leaving before the end of organizational meetings. You could simply tell people not to leave.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 1, 2020

I f you want to be a leader who can get things done, be sure you: Engender trust. Instill confidence. Earn respect.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 1, 2020

I’ve always been considered a fairly disciplined person. There are certain disciplines that have made me who I am today. In especially busy or stressful times of life, however, I do not always feel as disciplined in each area of my life. I may excel in one area, but not in another. The only solution I know to remedy a lack of discipline is to add discipline.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 1, 2020

Tapping into one’s network for human capital is vital for any aspiring entrepreneur, and so the ability to develop and cultivate that network is crucially important. Developing those connections is often difficult however, not least for women operating in traditionally male fields. Recent research from Columbia University highlights how crucial gender is in the kind of networking entrepreneurs must engage in.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 1, 2020

DNA testing services have become all the rage in the past few years, with services like Ancestry.com and 23andMe pledging to inform people about their genetic makeup and ethnic heritage. Such services also play a social networking function, as they alert you to potential relatives you didn’t know exist. Indeed, services such as GEDmatch explicitly provide such a service.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JANUARY 1, 2020

Sabrina Smith, thoughtLEADERS’ Principal, sat down with Jim and Jan of The Leadership Podcast to discuss leading ME. In continuation of our new collaboration with The Leadership Podcast, Sabrina discusses what it means to lead ME, yourself, in this short form “chalk talk.” These chalk talk series are bitesize sessions on a common (but challenging) leadership issue.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 1, 2020

There are inevitable risks involved in investing in startups from outside of your region, but data suggests cross-border VC investment is on the rise. New research from Wharton explores why this is happening, and especially the role immigrants are playing in these international investments. The authors state that cross-border VC investment is now at record levels, with this in large part due to the increasingly international nature of entrepreneurship.

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