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First Look: Leadership Books for August 2020

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2020. Creativity isn’t a “nice to have” leadership trait. In Humanocracy , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini make a passionate, data-driven argument for excising bureaucracy and replacing it with something better. That world?and and those rules?are

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5 Areas I Have Micromanaged in Church Revitalization

Ron Edmondson

It goes against everything I stand for in leadership and even how I’m wired personally. I have written extensively about the need for delegation in leadership. Bureaucracy and process we know well. As with most churches in need of revitalization, our finances had been struggling for several years. New expenditures.

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7 Barriers to Growth Every Leader Needs to Eliminate Today

Ron Edmondson

Granted this takes creativity, especially when finances are stretched, but always hearing “we can’t afford that” or “we aren’t big enough to do that” is never motivating to a team. With good leadership desperation can often lead to innovation. . Burdensome bureaucracies. The world is full of naysayers and doomsayers.

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5 Areas I Micromanaged in Church Revitalization

Ron Edmondson

It goes against everything I stand for in leadership and even how I’m wired personally. I have written extensively about the need for delegation in leadership. Bureaucracy and process we knew well. As with most churches in need of revitalization, our finances had been struggling for several years. New expenditures.

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5 Areas I Micromanaged in Church Revitalization

Ron Edmondson

It goes against everything I stand for in leadership and even how I’m wired personally. I have written extensively about the need for delegation in leadership. Bureaucracy and process we know well. As with most churches in need of revitalization, our finances had been struggling for several years. New expenditures.

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Innovating Around a Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), however, was successful in transforming its bureaucracy. Thus, needed process changes within bureaucracies should always be built into such initiatives.

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Our Dell Dance to the ‘Bureaucratic Boogie’ Highlights a Common Service Breakdown

The Practical Leader

I just got off the phone from a painful hour of experiencing Dell’s inward focused bureaucracy as Gary, our IT support guy, and I purchased a notebook computer for Heather. Toyota Under Fire: Leadership Lessons on Turning Crisis Into Opportunity. That may change. It was a lot of work to get someone to take our money.