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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2021

Leading Blog

What emerges is the long-term vision underpinning his success: that technology is ultimately about people and their potential. Impact Players : How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact by Liz Wiseman. Liz Wiseman reveals the secrets of these stellar professionals who play the game at a higher level.

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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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Leadership Vertigo – Understanding Why Leaders Go Off Course

Tanveer Naseer

The easy and obvious answers we might proffer are that either leaders are simply too busy or too focused on the short-term to affect the changes they need to improve working conditions. Or worse, that we simply assume they don’t care about the realities their employees face. Get Vulnerable”.

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Leadership Biz Cafe Podcast #15 – Tanveer Naseer On Overcoming Leadership Vertigo

Tanveer Naseer

That’s the basis of the conversation in this VERY special episode of Leadership Biz Cafe which wraps up the month-long celebration of the release of my first leadership book, “ Leadership Vertigo ”. Understanding one of the key challenges organizations face in terms of balancing leadership development and retaining key talent.

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Compassion – A Cornerstone In Today’s Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

In this month-long celebration of my first book “ Leadership Vertigo ”, I’ve had the distinct pleasure of having some of the top leadership experts – Doug Conant, Liz Wiseman, Jim Kouzes, and Barry Posner – share their insights about three of the four leadership principles discussed in my book.

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Using pay to manage risk

Chartered Management Institute

A more long-term approach would involve compensating managers for managing the risks that they take much better. I would argue that the CEO incentive structure encouraged the excessive risk-taking that played a strong role in the recession,” Wiseman says. “So Executives in such an environment take just the right amount of risk.

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How Not To Lose Your Soul While Leading With Karin Hurt – Answers From Leadership Podcast Episode 026

Joseph Lalonde

Winning Well is all about achieving long-term results that last. If you’re focused on the short-term, it’s easy to do whatever it takes to get the job done… Click To Tweet. I’m a big fan of Liz Wiseman’s book Multipliers. That gives you a sense of what the book is all about.

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