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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2021

Leading Blog

The Long Game : How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World by Dorie Clark. Your personal goals need a long-term strategy. We need to start playing The Long Game. If you think you know it, think again. Ask those you trust what books have inspired them, and dig in.

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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2021

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What emerges is the long-term vision underpinning his success: that technology is ultimately about people and their potential. Fear and uncertainty have been undermining performance and well-being in the workplace for as long as we have had workplaces. It also undermines long-term business performance.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

It leads to short-term thinking. The result is that our beliefs get brittle long before our bones. While fear can drive short-term results, it does so at the cost of high employee burnout and turnover. It also undermines long-term business performance. And that feeds our approach in society at large.

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How you treat your Employees will determine the FATE of your company

Brigette Hyacinth

Texas Roadhouse CEO Kent Taylor is giving up his pay for the rest of the year, (March 18, 2020, to Jan. Any effort a company is putting to keep their staff will go a long way in sustaining the culture and brand. These companies are just focusing on the short term. Consider the long term impacts.

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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

Although these clichés might serve short-term management objectives, they often hinder long-term innovation, suppress employee morale, and foster a culture of compliance over mutual growth. Organizations can use such phrases to curb dissent, cultivate an “us versus them” approach, and deflect responsibility. RationalWiki.

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The #1 Obstacle to Great Workplace Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

“The level of toxicity in the workplace is at an all-time high,” warns Johnny Taylor, president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management (“SHRM”). The song expresses a person’s longing to connect and the struggle to find others who will take time to engage in a meaningful way.

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Secure leadership for an insecure economy

Chartered Management Institute

It didn’t take long for Jaroslav to track down the missing money, which had simply been put somewhere no one had thought to look. While some choose to take such insecure work because of the flexibility it offers, many others have no choice but to accept the terms. The easiest thing was simply to blame someone for it.