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Senior Leadership Teams

What it takes to make them greatby Ruth Wageman, Debra A. Nunes, James A. Burruss, J. Richard HackmanCopyright © 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation. Summarizedby permission of Harvard Business School PressIn this Abstract, you will learn: 1) How a senior leadership team can help your organization;2) What prevents CEOs…
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The Sherpa Guide

Process-Driven Executive Coachingby Brenda Corbett and Judith ColemonThomason South-Western © 2005In this Abstract, you will learn: 1) How the Sherpa system takes a practical approach to executive coaching; 2) How coaching can improve executives’ managerial skills; and3) How to be a process-driven business coach.
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The Snowball

Warren Buffett and the Business of Lifeby Alice SchroederBloomsbury © 2008In this Abstract, you will learn: 1) Who Warren Buffett is; 2) What his personal and business history is; 3) What his investment philosophy is; and 4) How he became the world’s richest man.
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Total Leadership

Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Lifeby Stewart D. FriedmanHarvard Business PressSummarized by permission of Harvard Business PressIn this Abstract, you will learn: 1) How to take a holistic approach to leadership by improving your performance in the four life “domains”: “work, home, community and self”; 2) How to…
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Jim Collins: Leadership in Extraordinary Times

Jim Collins: Leadership in Extraordinary Times This page is designed to offer you and your business a host of useful resources, generated from the Jim Collins 2009 conference. Please download and use them freely. Contact Grant Ashfield, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., if you need more, or help with putting them into practice in…
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The first 90 days

Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels by Michael WatkinsSummarized by permission of Harvard Business School Press.Copyright 2003 Michael Watkins. In this Abstract, you will learn: How to meet the 10 key challenges necessary to accelerate your successful transition into a new leadership role; How to diagnose your…
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CopyCats

How Smart Companies Use Imitation to Gain a Strategic Edge by Oded ShenkarCopyright 2010 Oded Shenkar Summarized by permission of Harvard Business PressGetAbstract In this Abstract, you will learn: How to gain from imitation; How to avoid the risks of imitation, including being imitated yourself; How to implement various imitation…
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Why CEOS's Fail

The 11 Behaviors That Can Derail Your Climb to the Top – and How to Manage Them by David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo Jossey-Bass © 2003200 pages In this Abstract, you will learn: Which 11 personality fl aws can derail your career;. How to identify these weaknesses in…
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What is Servant-Leadership descirption

Servant-Leadership is a practical altruistic philosophy which supports people who choose to serve first, and then lead as a way of expanding service to individuals and institutions. Servant-leaders may or may not hold formal leadership positions. Servant-leadership encourages collaboration, trust, foresight, listening, and the ethical use of power and empowerment.
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The 13 behaviours of a high trust leader

What separates the great leaders from the good ones? What makes a manager a manager of choice by her reports, peers, and boss? What makes an individual credible with customers, suppliers, distributors, investors, and other stakeholders? While there are many dimensions to these questions, there is one common thread throughout:…
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Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time

by Tony Schwartz and Catherine McCarthy The science of stamina has advanced to the point where individuals, teams, and whole organizations can, with some straightforward interventions, significantly increase their capacity to get things done.   Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1.   Article Summary     The Idea in…
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Being the Boss

The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader by Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback Copyright 2011 Linda A. Hill and Lowell Kent LinebackSummarized by permission of Harvard Business Review Press In this Abstract, you will learn: Why the “3 Imperatives” – “manage yourself, manage your network and manage your…
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