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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2019

Leading Blog

Henderson and Barry C. These organizations tend to lag behind in innovation, discretionary effort, morale and ultimately performance. You're It : Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When It Matters Most by Leonard Marcus, Eric McNulty, Joseph M. Today, in an instant, leaders can find themselves face-to-face with crisis. An active shooter.

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Leaders As Control Freaks

Joseph Lalonde

We think this is the price paid to climb up the corporate ladder. This is a guest article by Rosalind Henderson. However, disguised self-neglect is partially to blame. Inherent in the American Creed of success is the byproduct of regular ten to twelve-hour days, overwhelm and constant exhaustion. It will ultimately lead to burnout.

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Learn How to Preach at this One-Day Workshop

Ron Edmondson

Preaching Rocket is hosting a one-day workshop called Preach Better Sermons LIVE , featuring some of the nation’s top communicators – Andy Stanley, Pete Wilson, Jeff Henderson, Reggie Joiner, Pete Scazzaro, Jarrett and Jeanne Stevens and more. The cost of the event is just $49 until June 15th; then the price increases.

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There Are Still Only Two Ways to Compete

Harvard Business Review

Back in the early 1960s, the great Boston Consulting Group founder and strategy theorist Bruce Henderson asserted that there was only one way to successfully compete: gain a relative market share advantage over all competitors so as to have lower costs than all of them. Photo by Andrew Nguyen. Why does it have that characteristic?

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Unilever’s Big Strategic Bet on the Dollar Shave Club

Harvard Business Review

” More specifically, male grooming is Unilever’s largest growth driver, according to Chet Henderson, Unilever’s VP of Insight, Personal Care. With predictive analytics helping identify customer preferences, the opportunities for tailoring products and commanding premium prices can quickly expand.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

As BCG’s founder, Bruce Henderson, once stated , “The first definition of a problem is inescapably intuitive. Further second- and third-order interactions occur downstream. The initial set of questions must always come from human beings. Only people can define the objectives and use the holistic judgment necessary.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

If you read what Peter Drucker had to say about competition back in the late ’50s and early ‘60s, he really only talked about one thing: competition on price. Competing by doing what everyone else is doing means, he says, competing on price (that is, learning to be more efficient than your rivals).