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First Look: Leadership Books for April 2025

Leading Blog

Psychologist and organizational behavior expert Dr. Karen Bridbord offers a revolutionary guide to career success and advancement, regardless of your industry, your companys size, or your role. McRaven Throughout his 40-year career, Admiral McRaven has experienced every manner of calamity imaginable.

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What Can Leaders Learn from Elite Athletes About High-Level Performance?

Leading Blog

During her tennis career, Serena Williams maintainedand still doesa healthy, largely plant-based diet as part of her philosophy of eating to live rather than vice-versa. His background is in organizational development, with a focus on leadership, strategy, and process optimization. Laurent Valosek is CEO of Peak Leadership Institute.

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Leaders vs. Managers

Great Leadership By Dan

In this second installment, Jim offers his take on the difference between managers and leaders. I've always thought the "leader vs. manager" debate was kind of useless, and I wrote an early post about it here. Leaders vs. Managers. So, here's the distinction I draw between leaders and managers. Hope you've enjoyed it.

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Lisa Petrilli: The Character-Based Leader Co-Author Interview

Lead Change Blog

lisapetrilli Get your copy now at thecharacterbasedleader.com, Amazon, Barnes & Noble or iTunes

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Culture Counts

Leading Blog

There I observed a wide array of Abbott executives, scientists and managers. As a manager “on loan” to Abbott from the University of Michigan, I quickly found similarities between the two organizations. They can pose major challenges for today’s managers, especially if those managers are part of a different generation.

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Decoding The Truth Of Leading Multi-Generational Workforces

Tanveer Naseer

And that is the issue of how to effectively manage a multi-generational workforce. Indeed, the almost nomadic-like mobility that is often ascribed to Millennials has also been refuted to relate less to a generational value/behavioural construct as it is simply reflective of the attitude seen in every generation at the start of their careers.

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The Inner World of the Leader: On the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries

Leading Blog

And why does the belief persist that management is a rational task performed by rational people according to rational organizational objectives? His background in economics, management, and psychoanalysis, adds a great deal of richness and context to the study of leadership. Kets de Vries doesn’t believe leaders are born.

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