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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

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Leadership is about hope. These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s market cap and reputation. And that feeds our approach in society at large.

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Leading a Culture of Innovation

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The most innovative companies pull the right levers to create a culture that leads to exploration, experimentation, and the innovations that positively surprise the market, create competitive differentiation, and drive growth. LEAPS Innovation Leadership Competencies. So how do you do it? Needless to say, there’s no simple answer.

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

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This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. Innovation today is as much about how you deliver value as it is about what it is you offer to the market. The other domain is leadership. Innovation innovation kaplan Leadership'

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Innovative Leaders Aren’t Scared of Customers

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During an organization’s start-up days, it’s much easier to strike up conversations with the market since there’s not much to lose. Through rapid prototyping, the bank was able to bring a mobile banking application to market in just 60 days (versus the typical 12-18 months), and at approximately one-tenth of the cost.

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Leading to Disruptive Innovation

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Five personal leadership competencies are essential for success in today’s environment: A Leapfrogging Mindset. Leaders who possess the unyielding intention of creating breakthroughs give themselves a leg up by ensuring everything they do adds a completely new level of value to the market. Boundary Pushing. Savoring Surprise.

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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

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This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value. Kaplan and David P. I call this the “Strategy Execution Skills Gap”. What’s required to execute strategy has not been taught in the classroom.

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Innovative Leaders Aren’t Scared of Customers

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Soren Kaplan is the author of Leapfrogging and a speaker, educator, and managing principal at InnovationPoint , where he teaches leaders how to create business breakthroughs. I recently had the opportunity to meet with a major bank. The discussion involved how to create new financial services for their high net worth clients (a.k.a.