Many authors have written about people management, project management or corporate culture as separate topics. But a new book by Ben Snyder ties together all three subjects and paints a clear picture of how they interact to nurture (or damage) employee engagement and organizational performance. Read this review, find the book and set fire to the status quo.
This post is reprinted from “The Conversations Around Us” with the permission of its author, Tara Alemany. I first “discovered” Andy Andrews when he started following me on Twitter. (He’s @AndyAndrews.) Exploring his website led me to The Noticer Project, a nationwide movement to “notice” the five most influential people in your life. From that point onward, I was » Read More
Graceful by Seth Godin is the best $3 you will spend this year! I’m serious. The author quickly takes you through a series of ideas created to help you move individually from defensive, zero-sum, factory-style leadership to a new gift-based, positive-sum, community-style model. Position It used to be that leaders were the people “in charge”. » Read More
“…We have observed that the biggest impediment to managers becoming great leaders is the lack of a clear vision. Yet less than 10 percent of the organizations we have visited are lead by managers who have a clear sense of where they are trying to lead people.”
There are as many books on leadership today as there are leaders to read them. Most of these deal with what it takes to be a leader and what poor leadership looks like (and should be avoided). Lucky for us, Kevin Eikenberry and Guy Harris have authored a new book, From Bud To Boss, Secrets » Read More
Hope Unseen: The Story of the U.S. Army’s First Blind Active-Duty Officer by Scotty Smiley with Doug Crandall Much is written about words like character and leadership. Countless words are used to describe the inner makeup of people we admire and desire to emulate. Often we want the success of a Tiger Woods or Peyton » Read More
This is a guest post by Jessica Henry (Twitter, LinkedIn), my daughter. She has no shortage of hobbies or books on her reading list. Many of the books come from me. But when she read this one, because of her feedback, I asked her to post the review. You’ll find that leadership comes in every » Read More
Linchpin is a fairly important recent book by Seth Godin. Most of the concepts in the book aren’t new and have been presented in many other books including The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn. Many times the way the author makes a point or the current state of the economy may serve to add impact » Read More
Finding the Soul of Big Business: One Company’s Ego Elimination Strategy by Paula Marshall I’ve lived in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area for almost 12 years. One organization that I’ve known about, without really knowing is Bama Companies, Inc., a 73 year old privately-held food services company. Bama is best known as a global pie and » Read More
Patrick Lencioni’s latest book isn’t what you might think from the title. It is very much true to the author though. “Getting Naked: A Business Fable about shedding the three fears that sabotage client loyalty” is a business fable about two consulting firms. The subtitle exposes some of the reasoning behind the title too (all » Read More
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