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8 New Leadership Books

Brimstone Consulting

New Books on Leadership and Change. Earlier this year, we shared a list of 31 books on leadership and change. He defines the six unwritten rules they seem to follow for using their digital platforms, ecosystems, moneymaking models, team-based structures, and leadership with a laser-sharp focus on the individual’s customer experience.

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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

Implementation typically involves experimentation, analyzing the existing strategies, and creative experiential learning exercises. The most threatening competitor leadership teams face is themself." Without a good implementation strategy and effective implementation, scenario planning is nothing more than an intellectual exercise.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business

Edelman estimates that one in three employees doesn’t trust their employer — despite the fact that billions are spent every year on leadership development. Part of the problem: Our primary method of developing leaders is antithetical to the type of leadership we need. What would work better? Make it experiential.

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Top 11 Must-Read Project Management Books

Epicflow

In addition to the “technical side” of project management, the author shares his ideas regarding effective stakeholder management, trust-based leadership, and effective decision-making as well as gives a variety of tools and techniques that can add value to your daily project management activities.

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business

An office environment reflects and reinforces a business’s core values, through the placement of different teams and functions and design elements that reflect culture, brand, and values. To better understand how these work, try the exercise below on your own or with your team.

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What Does an Aspiring Founder Need to Know?

Harvard Business

In later-stage ventures, important skills include recruiting specialist employees, communicating vision to new employees, and managing company culture. That can come from case studies, meeting role models, learning-by-doing on course projects, and seeing peers take the plunge.” Cofounders are crucial.

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Staying Focused in a Noisy Open Office

Harvard Business

You should first speak to your manager since it’s best if this discussion is “instigated by leadership,” Burkus says. Case Study #1: Be positive, and distance yourself from distractions when necessary. Case Study #2: Develop ground rules and find a way to quiet your brain. Suffer in silence.