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The Fall of the Alphas

First Friday Book Synopsis

Tom Davenport (collective judgment) Lao Tzu Peter Senge (organizational learning) Robert Greenleaf (servant leadership) St. Martins Press Tao Te Ching The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect [comma] Collaborate [comma] Influence and Lead'

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LEADERSHIP: A Master Class

First Friday Book Synopsis

The video collection also includes a bonus interview with Peter Senge, Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Sustainability at the MIT Sloan School of Management. I have just learned about a new series of DVD programs, produced by More Than Sound, and hosted by Daniel Goleman.

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Five Must-Reads for Tackling Complex Problems

Harvard Business Review

The Fifth Discipline , by Peter Senge. Although Senge's book was first published over 20 years ago, it remains one of the best explanations of this approach to analyzing problems. Emotional Intelligence , by Daniel Goleman. Systems thinking" is the key.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (1995). Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success.

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Reading List: What’s on yours?

CO2

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman. The Intelligent Entrepreneur by Bill Murphy. The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge. Organizational Culture and Leadership by Edgar Schein. Energy Leadership by Bruce Schneider (look for a blog series on this topic in the near future).

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Why only long-term, high-impact books become business “classics”

First Friday Book Synopsis

We seem to live in an age of instant gratification during which the average attention span resembles a strobe light blink and most people are only interested in (often obsessed with) the latest, “the best,” what’s new, the biggest, the fastest, what “they” recommend, etc. It was a 12th century French Neo-Platonist philosopher, Bernard of [.].