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First Look: Leadership Books for March 2020

Leading Blog

Marketers want to change their customers’ minds and leaders want to change organizations. Create the Future + the Innovation Handbook : Tactics for Disruptive Thinking by Jeremy Gutsche. Create the Future is paired with a revised edition of Jeremy's award-winning innovation handbook, Exploiting Chaos. But change is hard.

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AMA Handbook of Due Diligence

CEO Blog

Recently, I read a great book by William Crilly and Andrew Sherman called, The AMA Handbook of Due Diligence. The book lays out very clearly the information that is necessary to understand where a specific company fits with regards to market share, barriers to growth, etc. Analysis of the industry in which the company operates.

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The 7 Traps of Path Dependency

Leading Blog

He wrote Create the Future + The Innovation Handbook: Tactics for Disruptive Thinking (two books in one) to help us. “We Market leaders consistently miss out on great new ideas because they overestimate their market dominance.” We are more dependent on our past decisions than we like to admit. What to do? Change is a given.

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In Search of Happiness

Michael Lee Stallard

The chapter will be included in the American Society for Training and Development’s new Handbook of Management. Recognizing that happiness gets attention, I recently decided to title a chapter I’m writing “Should Leaders Care About Employee Happiness?&#

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How to Lead Sustainable Business Culture Change: A 3-Step Framework for Success

Let's Grow Leaders

There are three critical steps senior leaders must take to make this vision a reality: Visibly Model Comprehensively Communicate Intentionally Amplify Lasting Business Culture Change Starts with Senior Leaders Our favorite definition of culture comes from marketing guru Seth Godin. Culture is simply “People like us, do things like this.”

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Family Business Handbook

Eric Jacobson

January brought the new Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook , a comprehensive guide for how to build and sustain a successful enduring enterprise. If you are in a family business, serve as a silent partner or board member, or are contemplating becoming part of a family business, this handbook is essential reading.

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Why Purpose, Mission, Vision and Values Really Do Matter

Great Leadership By Dan

Action : Write an ambitious yet achievable position in your market or in your customers’ lives that recognizes your Purpose. Chris Griffiths , author of The Creative Thinking Handbook: Your Step-By-Step Guide To Problem Solving In Business , is founder and CEO of OpenGenius. What do we do? ? How do we do it? ? Whom do we do it for? ?