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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2020

Leading Blog

Featuring commentary from the leaders themselves describing how they handled each situation, it helps managers better understand not just what emotional intelligence is, or how to measure it, or how it is linked to bottom-line results: it also shows how real leaders used their emotional intelligence to deal with real situations.

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10 Guiding Principles That Will Lead You to Future Happiness and Success

Leading Blog

Bernard Shaw is credited with the adage “Youth is wasted on the young.” Get the facts before you make big purchases, cast your vote, or try to influence others. The compelling force for happiness and success in your life is you and only you. Never allow others to determine your ability and potential. #7. ALWAYS be a student.

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How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap

Eric Jacobson

In a highly personal and reflective manner, Mulligan, with Greg Shaw , details through stories, examples, insights and frameworks, how business leaders can prepare for and respond to technological disruption. How has this crisis influenced your thinking about the future of work?

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Leaders need to Lead

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Ken Marlin: Leadership is one of those concepts that management gurus like to throw around. One article I read said that leaders look forward while managers manage what just happened. Another said that leaders “influence” while managers “direct.” There are tons of books and articles on the subject.

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How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap

Eric Jacobson

In a highly personal and reflective manner, Mulligan, with Greg Shaw , details through stories, examples, insights and frameworks, how business leaders can prepare for and respond to technological disruption. How has this crisis influenced your thinking about the future of work?

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My Fair Lady Shows the Power of Expectations

The Practical Leader

Last week I finally saw the famous musical My Fair Lady based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion. I took our fair daughter, Jennifer, to see My Fair Lady at the Shaw Festival in beautiful Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Whether as a teacher, coach, or manager, you clearly can’t raise performance with low expectations.

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Making A Transition to Leadership

You're Not the Boss of Me

People who were once peers become, (organizationally speaking), subordinates and that means that you will have some influence over areas of their working life that you previously did not. It is also the story of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and his experience in making a significant relationship shift of his own. Here’s a clip.

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