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First Look: Leadership Books for November 2024

Leading Blog

Stay at Risk and Live Forever : Lessons from a Life of Curiosity, Grit, and Reinvention by Byron Wien and Taylor Becker Byron Wien, a legendary figure on Wall Street, shares his profound insights and life lessons in Stay at Risk and Live Forever. And I mean that last "well" in both senses.

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0525 | Chris Taylor

LDRLB

Chris Taylor is the founder of actionablebooks.com , a training and development company that spreads actionable insights from business books in the form of summaries and workshops. The post 0525 | Chris Taylor appeared first on LDRLB. In this interview, we discuss the role of culture in leading virtual teams.

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Leading Thoughts for September 28, 2023

Leading Blog

Bill Taylor on humility and ambition: “Exceptional performance begins with extraordinary insights. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives.

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The Great Leadership Development and Succession Planning eBook

Great Leadership By Dan

The Great Leadership Development and Succession Planning Kit is a “best of” collection of blog posts from the award winning blog Great Leadership , written by Dan McCarthy, an experienced leadership development practitioner and author. Dan's advice about how to develop great leaders is always practical and real world tested.

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Made From Scratch

Leading Blog

But then founder Kent Taylor is not a conventional guy. Throughout the book, his colleagues, friends, and family members weigh in on Taylor’s remarkable journey, and at the end of each chapter, he summarizes lessons he had learned along the way. He dropped out of business school and threw away the rule book.

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Choosing Second Best

Leadership Freak

Yesterday I chatted with Davis Taylor, founder and leader of TAI Incorporated. I wanted to learn more about the Pro Development Assessment™ my coach, Bob Hancox recently gave me. Sometimes second best is the best. My interest led me to Davis. Not surprisingly, we talked more about leadership than anything else.

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Leading Thoughts for April 8, 2021

Leading Blog

Watts Wacker and Jim Taylor on vision: “The only way to succeed in the marketplace today—the marketplace of individuals or products or services or ideas—is to know your own story and to follow it into the future. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. Source: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity.

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