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The Transformative CEO: Impact Lessons from Industry Game Changers Jeffrey J. Fox and Robert Reiss McGraw-Hill (2012) How and why leaders transform themselves so that they will be more effective transforming their organizations Each year, the average tenure of a new CEO becomes shorter and…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tom Davenport for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click…
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Do Nothing! How to Stop Overmanaging and Become a Great Leader J. Keith Murnighan Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2012) How to lead more effectively by doing less and helping others to do more…and do it better The title of this book attracts attention but is misleading.…
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Here is an excerpt from another outstanding article featured by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. It was co-authored by Matthew Guthridge, Asmus B. Komm, and Emily Lawson. Granted, this article appeared several years ago but what it reveals and explains is, if anything, even more relevant — and more…
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Think and Grow Rich: The Original Classic Napoleon Hill, with an Introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon Capstone Publishing Ltd. (2009) The “Supreme Secret” of success: “Anything the human mind can believe, the human mind can achieve.” Those who have read one…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * *…
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Contrary to any rumors you may have heard, Father’s Day was not Grorge Washongton’s idea, nor invented by Hallmark Cards. * * * Father’s Day was founded in Spokane, Washington in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in…
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Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success Ken Segall Portfolio/Penguin (2012) “I would give my life for simplicity on the other side of complexity.” Oliver Wendell Holmes As Hannibal Lector explains to Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs, the Roman emperor…
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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 Shawn H. Wilson, president of Usher’s New Look Foundation which offers…
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Brian Doyle is one of my favorite contemporary writers. Just as certain books can be “magic carpets” to exciting new intellectual and emotional adventures, so can writers and Doyle is among the best of them. Here is a brief excerpt…
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