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First Look: Leadership Books for January 2022

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2022. Win from Within : Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage by James Heskett. James Heskett provides a roadmap for achievable and fast-paced culture change. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

After reading his book Culture Spark , I reached out to talk about his work and his research. “If James Heskett and John Kotter found that organizations with strong corporate cultures realized over eleven years revenue growth of 682 percent, employment growth of 282 percent and stock price growth of 901 percent. Jason Richmond.

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Six Components of a Great Corporate Culture

Harvard Business Review

Heskett , culture "can account for 20-30% of the differential in corporate performance when compared with ''culturally unremarkable'' competitors." Place: Why does Pixar have a huge open atrium engineering an environment where firm members run into each other throughout the day and interact in informal, unplanned ways?

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