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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

More often it's an implicit contract, a buildup of organizational and cultural norms and the adoption of new technologies that make it easy to tether people to work. We've traveled far and fast from the old world of business ethics, where black-and-white concerns about bribery and fraud could be addressed via rules and processes.

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Leaders Lessons from an Outward Bound Wilderness Instructor

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Mark Brown: Leaders in the outdoor leadership space are quite familiar with a wilderness ethic and organization called Leave No Trace. Be Considerate of Others: The wilderness holds a special place for those who travel into it. LNT asks that travelers respect not only the place, but the experience as well.

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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2020

Leading Blog

To stay relevant, we have to be able to excel cognitively, behaviorally, and emotionally in ways that technology can't. Kilimanjaro and spent more than a decade traveling the world. The Digital Age will raise the question of how we humans will stay relevant in the workplace. She went on to reach the summits of Mt. Rainier and Mt.

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How Sabbaticals Help Our Careers

The Horizons Tracker

This is despite Bill Gates popularizing the concept of a “think week”, whereby he would shut himself away from work, technology, and indeed society in order to read and think about things. The researchers examined how people who had taken a career break felt when they returned to their jobs again.

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Are We More Likely To Trust Machines With Private Information Than Humans?

The Horizons Tracker

The authors believe that the ‘machine heuristic’ imbues people with greater trust in technology than humans, as people are capable of dishonesty and fraud. “For people who did not believe in the machine heuristic, it didn’t make a difference whether the travel agent was a machine or a human.”

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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

Optimists favor ‘ doing more with more ,’ placing bets that higher sales and profits will pay for the added investments in headcount or technologies; we’ve all been there at one time or another. A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. This journey isn’t an easy one.

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5 Critical Skills You Will Need to Hit the Ground Running After College

Leading Blog

“Our best employees are problem solvers and are able to weave everything they know together—customer service, empathy, persuasive skills, leadership skills, flexibility, and work ethic,” Marie Artim of Enterprise told me. They can think on their feet.” But their relationship has been largely passive: switch on the device and use it.

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