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Your Leadership Operating System: Ego Or Eco?

Lead Change Blog

In his best-selling classic business book, “Good to Great,” author Jim Collins explains that it’s natural for ambitious leaders to have a healthy ego. Contrast this approach with “ecosystem leadership,” a term coined by Otto Scharmer in his book, “Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies.”

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2024 Compilation

Leading Blog

Curiosity Versus Continual Learning via @AdmiredLeaders LISTEN: @jamesstrock interviews @megan_e_gorman Author of All the Presidents' Money: How the Men Who Governed America Governed Their Money Interesting book and interview! Traditional, Hybrid, or Self-Publishing? by @wallybock Are You Fighting the Right Leadership Battles?

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Lessons on Tossing Out the Rule Book

General Leadership

The warning to the Houston Space Center of a major technical fault in the electrical system of one of the spacecraft’s oxygen tanks certainly caused well founded concern. The post Lessons on Tossing Out the Rule Book appeared first on General Leadership. … Read the rest.

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First Look: Leadership Books for March 2020

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2020. This book takes a different approach. We stay downstream, handling one problem after another, but we never make our way upstream to fix the systems that caused the problems. Better yet, this is a double-sided book. But change is hard.

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First Look: Leadership Books for December 2021

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2021. In the book, you’ll learn how to the best leaders make their teams feel comforted, safe, and secure that they’re headed in the right direction. The Net Promoter System shines as their guiding star. With Amy Herman’s Fixed.,

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2023

Leading Blog

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2023 curated just for you. In the book, you'll explore how leaders, at every level, can build a workplace culture that drives organizational excellence and unleashes the full potential of every employee.

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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2021

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2021. In The Aristocracy of Talent , esteemed journalist and historian Adrian Wooldridge looks outside western cultures and shows what transformative effects it has had everywhere it has been adopted, especially once women were brought into the meritocratic system.

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