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APRIL 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in April 2023 curated just for you. Admiral McRaven was honored to receive this honor in 2011 when he took charge of the United States Special Operations Command. The Anxious Achiever is a book with a mission: to normalize anxiety and leadership.

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Books Norton Leadership Crisis 321

Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 13, 2013

The following is a guest piece by Ritchie Norton. In the book Good to Great, legendary business consultant Jim Collins uncovered what it takes for a company to be great. We are also more accessible to success, because we become collaborative rather than divisive, thus opening ourselves up to a world of possibilities.

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Collins Norton Open-book Succession 279

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

.” Tool #2 goes by different names: open-book management, economic transparency, ownership culture. At open-book companies, it’s part of everyone’s job to contribute to the success of the business. COGS dropped from roughly 30% of revenue to 26.5% COGS dropped from roughly 30% of revenue to 26.5%

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ESOP Open-book Norton Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Another says she is most excited about the opportunity to change how the industry operates and have a big impact on improving lives. Yet leaders have turned change from exhausting to exhilarating by asking employees to open their imaginations. It’s too remote; it distracts from doing the work, and the work is the important thing.

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Motivation IPO Norton Open-book 11