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New Book Highlights The Problems With Refugee Systems

The Horizons Tracker

A recent book from Boston University’s Heba Gowayed explores why the welcome afforded to people often veers between lukewarm to openly hostile. The book is based on Gowayed’s research on the reception offered to Syrian refugees in the United States, Germany, and Canada. Making things better.

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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2020

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2020. Rather than dispensing simplistic rules, he mentors readers in the development of a mental toolkit for approaching challenges based on how startup markets evolve in real life. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases. Leadership isn't easy.

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Leadership is a Process!

Lead Change Blog

Leaders are open, curious, and motivated to get a full understanding of the current situation. Organizations and markets are complex and constantly changing. Open up and share what you are thinking and feeling. His latest e-book, Leadership-Perfecting Your Approach and Style -($1.99) is available on Amazon Kindle.

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How To Survive And Then Reset To Ultimately Thrive

Eric Jacobson

Rather than seeing it as an obstacle to overcome, integrate it into your strategic approach to invigorate your high-growth potential and outperform competition under any market condition,” explains Rebecca Homkes , author of the new book, Survive, Reset, Thrive. Yet, resetting and leaning into change is essential. “If

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Byron Wien’s 20 Lessons Learned

Michael Lee Stallard

While working at Morgan Stanley in New York City, I met and discovered the writings of several thoughtful market analysts. Nurture your network by sending articles, books and emails to people to show you’re thinking about them. Travel extensively. Among my favorites was Byron Wien, who is now a vice chairman at Blackstone.

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Leadership and Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Playing for parity by traveling the traditional path of best practices just ensures one thing; you will spend great amounts of time and money failing slowly, publicly, and painfully. Start thinking about opportunities based on insights, customers, markets, and business models. Think next chapter vs last book.

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Don’t Wait for Someone Else to Fix It

Skip Prichard

Compassionate Leadership The world today is in dire need of positive, empathetic, and compassionate leadership, and this need is beautifully addressed in the book, Don’t Wait for Someone Else to Fix It. The book explores eight key principles that form the foundation of empathetic leadership.