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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2020

Leading Blog

Leading with Feeling : Nine Strategies of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership by Cary Cherniss and Cornelia W. The book distills the leaders' experiences into nine strategies that can help any leader or potential leader to be more effective. All In : How Obsessive Leaders Achieve the Extraordinary by Robert Bruce Shaw.

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The Benefits of a Chief Transformation Officer for Growth

N2Growth Blog

is the Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer at Hyperoptic, a fiber-to-the-building Internet service provider based in London. Step 3: Strategy alignment. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw. Boris Dragovi? And why is that?

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When the Distancing Ends, How Far Away Will You Be?

Decker Communication

The playwright George Bernard Shaw once observed that β€œto be in hell is to drift, and to be in heaven is to steer.” Where are the innovations (and innovators) that you should double-down on to change the game? Smart leaders in every industry recognize that they now have unbounded freedom to innovate.

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Employees Demand Employers Become More Sustainable

The Horizons Tracker

“The National Health Service produces around 4-5% of the CO2 in the UK so is a major contributor to climate change,” Shaw continues. As the importance of sustainability grows, so too do the number of strategies and frameworks for actually achieving it.

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Subjective Understanding in the Workplace: Embracing Complexity and Fostering Collective Intelligence

Mike Cardus

By embracing the fluidity of subjective understanding, organizations can tap into the collective intelligence of teams and foster innovation. Here are five strategies that can help us navigate organizational change and look for collective intelligence: Encourage continuous learning and growth within the organization. Jossey-Bass.

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Climate Change Is an Overwhelming Problem. Here Are 4 Things Executives Can Do Today

Harvard Business Review

But as the carbon vortex gains momentum, there is also evidence of an equal and opposite vortex pulling us toward breakthrough innovation and a more sustainable future. “Even a vortex is a vortex in something,” noted George Bernard Shaw. Plunge into the data. ” So in what medium is the carbon vortex forming?

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What’s the Purpose of Companies in the Age of AI?

Harvard Business Review

Artificial intelligence can also be useful in exploring new sources of advantage: in the famous case of AlphaGo, the winning “strategy” was one that no human player had ever come up with; and computers are increasingly writing new musical scores and painting Picasso-like landscapes.

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