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Redesigning Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

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Redesigning Leadership: Design, Technology, Business, Life John Maeda with Becky Bermont The MIT Press (2011) “Ue ni wa ue ga aru” is a Japanese aphorism that epitomizes the nature of excellence: “Above up, there is something even higher above up.&# Those who [.].

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LEADERSHIP: A Master Class

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The video collection also includes a bonus interview with Peter Senge, Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Sustainability at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Leadership: A Master Class allows individuals and organizations alike access [.].

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Leadership BS – My Six Lessons and Takeaways

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Last Friday, I presented my synopsis of Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time by Jeffrey Pfeffer. Here are my reasons why Leadership BS… Read More Leadership BS – My Six Lessons and Takeaways. It is a good, disturbing, challenging book.

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Leadership BS by Jeffrey Pfeffer – A Reflection

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I’m just about finished with my preparation reading of Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time by Jefferey Pfeffer. (I I will post on… Read More Leadership BS by Jeffrey Pfeffer – A Reflection. I am presenting my synopsis this Friday at the First Friday Book Synopsis). This post is a simple reflection.

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Ken Perlman on “Leadership Lessons From LEGO”

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He is a devoted father of two girls and believes that many of the lessons learned in fatherhood apply, on a certain level, to teaching clients change leadership. Here he shares the parallels between building a complex LEGO set with his […].

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Whittington’s Leadership Book Gets It All Together

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I have known Whittington for 17 years at the university, and he succeeded me as a consultant… Read More Whittington’s Leadership Book Gets It All Together. Lee Whittington, a Professor of Management and a former Dean of the Satish and Yasmin College of Business at the University of Dallas.

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Executive Level Book Synopsis Presentations – Maybe just what your Leadership Team(s) could use

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How can this be—all this failure—after the thousands of leadership books, talks, blogs, classes, and leadership-development programs seeking to make leaders more effective? How can this be, after more than a century of research seeking to figure out how to select better leaders?