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A Productive Rant About Leadership and Organizational Development

Sales Wolf Blog

I have a healthy respect for the ideas of Simon Sinek (and other leadership gurus like him). While his ideas are not particularly original, they are sound (in the appropriate context) and when incorporated into the operating system of a business or organization, can be fire. Is it to sell books and speaking gigs?

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

Leadership is about hope. These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. The political environment in the United States as elsewhere is driven by fear-based narratives. And that feeds our approach in society at large. Blog Post ).

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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

We discovered through a rigorous analysis applying 70 years of Nobel-prize winning economics that Mobsters have leadership teams and structures that enable their success despite continuous efforts to disrupt them. Relentless offers five transformative leadership lessons that leadership training programs must incorporate and promote.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2019

Leading Blog

Great Leaders Have No Rules : Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business by Kevin Kruse (Rodale Books, 2019) Kevin Kruse debunks popular wisdom with ten contrarian principles for better, faster, easier leadership. The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek (Portfolo, 2019) Do you know how to play the game you’re in?

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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2019

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2019. The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek. In Sailing True North , Admiral Stavridis offers a much more intimate, human accounting: the lessons of leadership and character contained in the lives and careers of history's most significant naval commanders.

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Servant Leadership in Action

Leading Blog

T HROUGH THE PAGES of Servant Leadership in Action , we get a clearer picture of what servant leadership is and isn’t. The leadership aspect of servant leadership is the responsibility of the traditional hierarchy. Leadership is the by-product and positional authority is, at best, an afterthought.”

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4 Properties or Attributes of Organizational/Work Systems

Mike Cardus

I talk, write and read a great deal about ‘ systems ’, organizational, team, managerial leadership systems. Then one day an Executive involved in my Exponent Leadership Process asked, “ Mike you talk about this system, I am not sure I know what that means?” General Attributes or Properties of a System.

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