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Silos, Politics and Turf Wars
by Patrick Lencioni The story is about a consultant starting his new business by helping his clients overcome "silo" and political issues that are stagnating cooperation and inhibiting effective business operations and growth. I’m not going to cover the fable in this summary.
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Confronting Reality
by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
Confronting Reality is an important contribution for running a business in the global economy. Bossidy and Charan show us how to use the business model to develop a robust, reality-based process for thinking about your business in a holistic way. Here is the business model that needs to be customized for your business.
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Crucial Conversations
by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan & Switzler
Crucial Conversations provides the rationale, wisdom and actions for choosing the appropriate approach to necessary conversations. Basically, when we are stuck and know something is wrong or out of synch, there is a conversation we need to initiate. We must look first at ourselves. We need to decide what we really want in order that we don’t make “sucker choices”. This is just a process of being clear about our purpose and then doing the right thing.
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Slack:
Getting Past Burnout, Busywork and the Myth of Total Efficiency,
by Tom DeMarco
Tom
DeMarco is a leading management consultant to both Fortune 500 and
up and coming companies. He has discovered a counterintuitive principal
that explains why efficiency improvement can sometimes make the
company slow. DeMarco wisely suggests that slack can actually improve
the performance of a business unit and company...
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Bringing
Out The Best In People, "How
to apply the astonishing power of positive reinforcement."
By Aubrey C. Daniels
Reinforcing good human behavior is
still a crucial management tool. Aubrey
Daniels states that "The behavior of people in business is not another
issue to be considered-it is the center of every business decision.”
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The
Five Dysfunctions of a Team
A Leadership Fable
By Patrick Lencioni
The
first dysfunction is the absence of trust among team members. Essentially,
this stems from their unwillingness to be vulnerable within the
group. Team members must be genuine and open to include revealing
their mistakes and weaknesses...
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Good To Great
By Jim Collins
Jim Collins
co-authored Built to Last. Both books have a great deal of credibility
because of the depth of research. Good to Great took 5 years of
research. Jim Collins identified these eleven companies as great.
They are compared with their closest competitors...
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Leading
Change
By John P. Kotter
Change
management is a subject that we’ve heard so much about that
we gloss over it. Why are we still getting it wrong? Or, why aren’t
we learning how to manage change better?
John
Kotter’s book is a clear refresher about how to lead organizational
changes. I’ll point out the newer models and wake-up calls...
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The
Paradox of Success
By John R. O’Neil
“When winning at work means losing at life”
The
essence of the book is the Cycle Of Renewal learned in Fredric Hudson’s
book, Life Launch.. O’Neil places leaders in the cycle. The
leader can be from a one-person business or a CEO of a Fortune 500
company. Of course, as we learned, this stuff transcends to any
one of our lives...
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Primal
Leadership
By
Daniel Goleman
Richard Boyatzis
Annie McKee
" Realizing
the Power of the Emotional Intelligence "
The book was
written in a large part because of the enthusiastic response to
the H B R articles "What makes a leader?" and "Leadership
that gets results". The authors go far beyond those articles
to advance the concept of primal leadership. Daniel Goleman states
that Emotional Intelligence is more important in leadership than
IQ. These proven concepts are based on exhaustive research that
is described in Emotional Intelligence and Working with Emotional
Intelligence, both by Goleman...
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Why
the Bottom Line Isn’t
David
Ulrich and Norm Smallwood
The authors,
David Ulrich and Norm Smallwood, make a convincing argument that
the intangible characteristics of a company are a better scorecard
for success than the “bottom line”. The intangible value
of a business speaks to the “how” the organization is
successful. This book helps leaders create sustainable shareholder
value and enables communication to all interested parties, i.e.,
shareholders, investors, etc. The book ultimately urges the reader
to become a new breed of leader who is the architect of intangibles
in their company...
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