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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

More often it's an implicit contract, a buildup of organizational and cultural norms and the adoption of new technologies that make it easy to tether people to work. We've traveled far and fast from the old world of business ethics, where black-and-white concerns about bribery and fraud could be addressed via rules and processes.

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Leadership and learning

Lead on Purpose

— The Product Management Perspective: Technology continues to evolve ever more rapidly. Kennedy Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty and persistence. Colin Powell Make it your objective to be a life-long learner; every aspect of your life will benefit. Markets change quickly.

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Three practices of successful product managers

Lead on Purpose

They focus on this marketing campaign or that new technology, and lose track of what’s most important. A company’s success is ultimately a roll-up of all products and services selling for a profit. This seems straight forward, and yet in my experience company leaders too often lose track of this important goal. Know what works.

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What matters in 2010?

Lead on Purpose

’ How does government become an open platform that allows people inside and outside government to provide better services to each other?

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Book Review: Here Comes Everybody

Lead on Purpose

We are being pushed rapidly down a route largely determined by the technological environment.&# “Anything that raises the cost of doing something reduces what gets done.&# Changes are happening at a breakneck pace; we can either embrace them and use them to our advantage, or ignore them to our peril.

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Capturing ideas

Lead on Purpose

Over time circumstances change, technology improves and opportunities appear that you do not expect. The more ideas you capture the more likely you are to get the perfect new product or feature. Many times ideas will seem silly or absolutely unobtainable; write them down anyway.

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Does All This Sound Familiar?

Coaching Tip

Companies based on new technologies were acquiring monopoly power. Taylor Caldwell: Captains and the Kings. . Books Current Affairs Ethics Leadership Memes What is' The Progressives were also moralists. They loved the idea of purifying things that were unclean, corrupt or tainted.

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