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Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (and how to fix it) Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Harvard Business Review Press (March 2019) Which qualities cause people to become incompetent leaders — and, conversely, good leaders? According to Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, “This book…
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Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989 Michael Beschloss Simon & Schuster (2008) A crucible unlike any other Not all U.S. Presidents were courageous and not all courageous U.S. Presidents are discussed in this volume. According to Michael…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads for New Managers Various Contributors Harvard Business School Press (2017) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt The eleven HBR articles assembled in this volume were published…
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Bring Your Human to Work: 10 Surefire Ways to Design a Workplace That Is Good for People, Great for Business, and Just Might Change the World Erica Keswin McGraw-Hill Pearson (September 2018) “People don’t care how much you know until they know how…
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I Can Learn From You: Boys as Relational Learners Michael Reichert and Richard Hawley Harvard Education Press (2014) How to forge and manage “mutually respectful, purposeful relationships with [most] students Michael Reichert and Richard Hawley wrote this book in order…
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Leadership Wisdom: Lessons from Poetry, Prose, and Curious Verse Bob Vanourek Motivational Press (2016) Don’t try to find the “right” answers unless and until you first know which questions to ask Those who aspire to lead others must embark on…
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Biography.com is one pf the best online sources for biographical and historicaL material. For example: George Washington was a leader of the Continental Army in the American Revolution. Also, Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a massive sculpture carved into Mount…
Read MoreBiography.com is one of the best online sources for biography and general history material. For example: Thomas Jefferson was a draftsman of the Declaration of Independence and the third U.S. president (1801-09). He was also responsible for the Louisiana…
Read MoreIn 1908, Napoleon Hill was retained by Andrew Carnegie to interview the most famous and successful men at that time, throughout the world. For the next two years, that’s what he did. Those in the U.S. included Thomas Edison, Alexander…
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant Ronald C. White Random House (October 2016) A brilliant examination of a U.S. hero “from the inside out” As I often do, I read this book in combination with another, James Lee…
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