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Robert Bruce Shaw assists business leaders in building organizations and teams capable of superior performance. His specialty is working closely with senior executives, as individuals and as groups, on organizational and leadership effectiveness. Robert often works with leaders in new…
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The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack Portfolio/Penguin Random House (February 2017) How breakthrough thinking can accelerate personal growth and professional development Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack make…
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Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age Edward D. Hess and Katherine Ludwig Barrett-Koehler Publishers (January 2017) “NewSmart”: Excellence at the very highest levels of cognition and initiative What will be the percentage of…
Read MoreIn The Leading Brain, Friederike Fabritius and Hans Hagemann explain several ”powerful science-based strategies for achieving peak performance.” In Chapter 4, Fabritius and Hagemann offer these key points: o Our brains prefer the path of least resistance. In order to…
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The last time I checked, Amazon US sells 9,369 volumes whose authors discuss great leadership. Four of the best were written or co-authored by Jim Collins. As Collins explains in Good to Great, Level 5 leaders are those “who lead…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads for New Managers Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (February 2017) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker This is the latest…
Read MoreSteven Spielberg: A Life in Films Molly Haskell Yale University Press (January 2017) “Everything about me is in my films.” Steven Spielberg There is substantial truth in Steven Spielberg’s observation, as Molly Haskell indicates in this brief but remarkably comprehensive…
Read MoreThese are among my favorite Viktor Frankl observations: To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to “be happy.” But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to “be happy.’”…
Read MoreIn Beyond Performance Management, Jeremy Hope and Steve Player recommend key practices to achieve superior performance. For example, how to use key value drivers as the processes and practices by which to have the greatest impact on shareholder value. “Valuation…
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Setting New Leaders Up For Success
Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Nathaniel Plamondon for Halogen Software’s TalentSpace blog. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * *…
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