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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2020

Leading Blog

frameworks that help make thoughtful decisions about starting, growing, managing, and selling a business. Short-termism is rampant among executives and managers today, causing many companies to underperform and even go out of business. Instead of startup myths?legends legends spun from a fantasy version of Silicon Valley?Rizwan

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Building Trust Through Behavioral Integrity

Great Leadership By Dan

Tony Simons’ powerful article, “ The High Cost of Lost Trust ,” appeared in the Harvard Business Review in 2002. In that piece, he described his team’s efforts to examine a specific hypothesis (“Employee commitment drives customer service”) in the US operations of a major hotel chain. Their research methods and analysis discovered: ?

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6 Q Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Zenger and Folkman (2002) report that the top 10% of leaders produce five times as much net profit as the bottom 10 %, and twice as much as average leaders. The good news is that most of the people who get to top management positions are smart enough. TQ – Technical/Operational Quotient Top leaders know the business.

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Operating Outside Legal Boundaries Helps Companies To Innovate

The Horizons Tracker

New research from IESE explores “informal disruptors” companies that operate outside legal boundaries but quickly gain consumer acceptance due to the value they provide. This peer-to-peer audio file-sharing service disrupted the music industry during its brief existence before bankruptcy in 2002. Take Napster, for example.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. I forget who it was, but some researcher determined that a person can really only manage relationships with about 150 people.

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10 Misconceptions About People At Work

Mike Cardus

Unfortunately when this question is asked to executives and managers they are operating off false theories of folklore that are leading them to treat employees as less than capable. List is from Elliot Jaques “Social Power & the CEO” 2002. From the one you believe, do you as an employee operate that way?

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”