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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2021

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2021. Kotter with Vanessa Akhtar and Gaurav Gupta. Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar, and Gaurav Gupta explore how to create non-linear, dramatic change in your organization. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 28 titles.

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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

Lady GaGa) , with the implication that leadership is an intuitive skill. Great leadership is certainly associated with strong instincts and intuition, but intuition and instincts are shaped by training and more importantly, greatly augmented through experience. Failure is an essential part of the innovation process.

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3 Ways Leaders Can Help Bring Great Ideas To Life

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Kotter International President, Russell Raath on behalf of The Economist Executive Education Navigator. Yet the most innovative companies—those that can face challenging times and emerge stronger than ever—often recognize a key truth that is missing in many traditional, hierarchical organizations.

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The Biggest Challenges into Exciting Opportunities

Coaching Tip

Basing the way you operate in the past, which is what best practices tell you to do, doesn’t equip you to navigate change. But when everyone thinks that way, institutions and organizations don’t adapt, they don’t innovate, they don’t change rapidly enough and it gets us all into trouble. Can't Get Enough Leadership , .

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

In his book New Rules, John Kotter notes that from 1974 through 1994, Harvard Business School graduates who worked for smaller corporations tended to make more money and have higher job satisfaction than their counterparts in large corporations. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

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. Corporate leaders that operate with an ivory tower mentality are likely to find their tower tumbling down.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. Leaders followers, and context form a system of leadership. A S LEADERS we must learn and grow. Blog Post ).

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