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The Pause Principle: Step Back to Lead Forward Kevin Cashman Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2012) “Great things are achieved by reflection, force of character, and judgment.” Marcus Tullius Cicero In his previous book, Kevin Cashman advocates what he characterizes as “leadership from…
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Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Most people have someone they can count on when they need…
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Leverage Leadership: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools Paul Bambrick-Santoyo Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Derek Bok This book is best viewed as an operations manual with a toolkit for those directly involved in public school education in…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Kevin Smith that is featured by Business Insider a website at which something exciting is always happening. Credit: Jason Merriman, Business Insider On mobile devices alone, you have close to hundreds of…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article Tony Schwartz wrote for the Harvard Business Review blog. To check out out all the free resources at his website, please click here. * * * I decided…
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Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation Daniel J. Siegel Basic Books (2010) How and why the mind uses the brain to create itself in order “to promote physical, psychological, and interpersonal well-being In Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, Polonius offers this advice…
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Carol S. Dweck Ballantine Books (2008) How to achieve sustainable growth of intellectual capabilities with the right mindset I read this book when it was first published (2006) and recently re-read it before reading Daniel Siegel’s Mindsight: The…
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Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Ken Rees, president and chief executive of Think Finance, a…
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Chip Heath’s research suggests that sticky ideas share six basic traits. • Simplicity. Messages are most memorable if they are short and deep. Glib sound bites are short, but they don’t last. Proverbs such as the golden rule are short…
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Henry Mintzberg on “Some Myths of the Conductor as Leader”
Here is a brief excerpt from one of Henry Mintzberg’s most valuable books, Managing (2009), in which he comments on the metaphor of leader as conductor, on the platform, fully in control. Does that actually constitute the exercise of leadership? Here’s what Henry thinks. * …
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