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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2019

Leading Blog

He does this by sharing the eleven shifts he made over the course of his long and successful leadership career. Welcome, Engaging Management Henry Mintzberg. Maxwell helps leaders gain the ability and willingness to make leadership changes that will positively enhance their organizational and personal growth.

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

To most of us, mentors are people of experience and knowledge who help the less experienced advance their careers and/or their education. In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO.

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LeadershipNow 140: June 2015 Compilation

Leading Blog

The Most Important Career Decision of Your Life: Stepping Up to Leadership from @DDIworld. Henry Mintzberg, the Anti-CEO , on The CEO Series radio show via @profkjmoore. Ready or Not, Here Comes Algorithmic HR by @watkinsmichael. Face Your Fears With New Challenges by paul_larue. When to change how you lead from @McKQuarterly.

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To P or Not to P: Does Your Purpose Provoke Passion?

The Practical Leader

Many more people are searching beyond a job or career to find a calling. McGill University management professor and author, Henry Mintzberg said, “an organization without human commitment is like a person without a soul: Skeleton, flesh, and blood may be able to consume and to excrete, but there is no life force.”

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Management Excellence Book Review: Management? It’s Not What You Think

Management Excellence

by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel. Also, there’s the reality that many management books struggle to adequately fill the space between the book-covers, offering up their best in the introduction, the first chapter and the wrap-up chapter. Here are my thoughts on: Management? It's Not What You Think!

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Political games in organizations: the ones other people play. Not.

Roundtable Talk

Using materials provided by our colleagues at Coaching Ourselves , our lively group of mid-career leaders explored the topic of politics in organizations and reinforced my own view that “playing the game” is a daily reality in organizations… and may even spill over into your personal life. Whether you’re aware of it or not. Happy leading!

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Wait, I’m the Boss?!? The Guide for New Managers to Succeed

Skip Prichard

” -Henry Mintzberg. The most successful managers understand that one of their key jobs is to support their people—to provide them with the training, coaching, and other things they need to gain the experience and responsibility they need to do the best job possible and to progress in their careers. ” -John Wooden.