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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2017

Leading Blog

The Power of Moments : Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. The Startup Way : How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth by Eric Ries. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October.

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Women Will Come To The Fore In The Feeling Economy

The Horizons Tracker

The importance of the “pivot” has been a fundamental part of the entrepreneurial playbook for much of the near-decade it’s been since Eric Ries first published his groundbreaking The Lean Startup but the ability to adapt has been especially crucial during a pandemic in which so much of what we thought we knew has been tipped upside down.

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Wiki Brands - CEO Blog - Time Leadership

CEO Blog

Sometime the Time Management Guy in me questions if it is a good use of time. Al Ries is one of my brand heros. Wiki Brands reinforces that the web has given great power to the consumer. Ive authored a Time Leadership Audio CD, book and eBook ; "How to use the Secrets of Leadership for Time Management".email

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Why Your Social Media Metrics Are a Waste of Time

Harvard Business Review

They're what Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup , calls "vanity metrics.". That's what Ries calls an "engine of growth.". Seek out what Ries refers to as "actionable metrics." Traditionally, managers were used to achieving business objectives in departments that make things, sell things, or manage money.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.

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Considering a Start-Up? Think Again.

Harvard Business Review

In The Lean Start-Up , Eric Ries talked about vanity metrics — numbers that create the illusion of success, rather than validate actual progress. And as ubiquitous stories of success spread in social media, these illusions become powerful self-delusions. The problem isn't what the message says, but what it doesn't.

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The Most Innovative Companies Don’t Worry About Consensus

Harvard Business Review

Consensus is a powerful tool. Nick is a typical manager at a one of the world’s most successful widget companies. But like most hierarchical organizations, Nick’s managers and their managers expect to be informed of his ideas before they make their way to the big boss. Again, consensus can be a powerful tool.