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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2021

Leading Blog

Kotter with Vanessa Akhtar and Gaurav Gupta. Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar, and Gaurav Gupta explore how to create non-linear, dramatic change in your organization. In his career as an executive at IBM, Cisco, and now as CEO of Anaplan, Frank A. Transform your organization with speed and efficiency using this insightful new resource.

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20 Leadership Books You Might Not Have Read

N2Growth Blog

This book combines several of his best pieces in one volume, and is a must read for anyone looking to understand organizational, operational, or cultural management theory. Lone Survivor - This book chronicles the story of Operation Redwing as told by SEAL team leader Marcus Luttrell – the lone survivor of the operation.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. Employees are wondering, “If the company is willing to dump me at its convenience, why shouldn’t I dump the company at my convenience?”

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success. By Daniel H.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. We need get off the career ladder and get onto a learning curve. Accelerate : Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World by John P. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). We need to be a perpetual rookie. Blog Post ).

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business Review

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. McDonald and his team’s approach was heavily influenced by John Kotter’s eight steps for effective organizational change.