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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2019

Leading Blog

Relationomics : Business Powered by Relationships Dr. Randy Ross with a Foreword by Ken Blanchard. Welcome, Engaging Management Henry Mintzberg. Over the years, he has helped his clients completely reinvent their operating systems—the fundamental principles and practices that shape their culture—with extraordinary success.

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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. Studies show that individuals with political skills tend to do better in gaining more personal power as well as managing stress and job demands, than their politically naive counterparts.

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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 extra power point is needed for the wi-fi router. But the aspect of design we want to focus on here is a bit different.

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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. Formally sanctioned rules are only invoked when convenient to those with power. ” Consider to whom you’re giving power and alter that if it’s getting you nowhere.