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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2019

Leading Blog

Maxwell helps leaders gain the ability and willingness to make leadership changes that will positively enhance their organizational and personal growth. Welcome, Engaging Management Henry Mintzberg. Leadershift : The 11 Essential Changes Every Leader Must Embrace John C. In Leadershift, John C. There is a cow, but it doesn't jump.)

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What Strategists Can Learn from Architecture

Harvard Business Review

We’re not the first to propose that strategy borrows from design; in HBR articles, Henry Mintzberg drew the analogy with the potter throwing a bowl and Roger Martin has made an explicit connection with design. An approach that we think might work better would be to treat strategy making as if it were a design process.

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The 4 Types of Organizational Politics

Harvard Business Review

According to McGill’s Henry Mintzberg , it’s just another influencing process along with norms, formal authority and expertise. For example, it may be the case that a manager needs to exert a large amount of pressure on a team to get something done by using the power of their position over others.

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Office Politics Isn’t Something You Can Sit Out

Harvard Business Review

Moderately political organizations also operate largely on widely understood, formally sanctioned rules. This is the type of organization in which those with little understanding of or interest in politics — the purists among us — can thrive. Political behavior, where it does exist, is low-key or deniable.