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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2024 curated just for you. Uncommon Greatness : Five Fundamentals to Transform Your Leadership by Mark Miller Virtually every problem can be traced back to one root cause: leadership. It's time to fight back.

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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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Texas Roadhouse and a Leader’s Legacy

Mark Sanborn

A personal note: This post is a tribute to Kent Taylor, founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse who tragically passed in March 2021. Kent Taylor, founder of Texas Roadhouse, not only openly admits that three of his first five restaurants failed, but he has a memento from each mounted behind his desk with a plaque detailing the money lost. .

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Secure leadership for an insecure economy

Chartered Management Institute

Advice: Secure leadership for an insecure economy Written by David Waller Tuesday 05 December 2023 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email More than six million UK employees live in a state of permanent high alert, subject to last-minute schedule changes and uncertain when their next pay packet is coming.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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3 Keys For Building Relationships With Those You Lead

Tanveer Naseer

For almost 10 years, I’ve been writing about leadership and in that time, perhaps one of the most significant shifts I’ve seen has been the willingness to recognize that the key to our success as leaders stems from the relationships we foster and nurture with those we lead.

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Footwashing for Leaders

Leading Blog

Fast Company cofounder Bill Taylor argues in Are You “Humbitious” Enough to Lead? in the Summer 2011 Leader to Leader journal, that “the best way to deliver on an ambitious agenda for your organization is to embrace a sense of “humbition” in your personal style and as part of your leadership repertoire.”. So] be ambitious. Be a leader.

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