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Sharon Daloz Parks • Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World
within a year, she had put together a cross-agency group of behavioral scientists, policy experts, and program makers, founding and chairing the White House’s first-ever Social and Behavioral Sciences Team. When Obama left office in January 2017, Shankar also departed, moving on to become Google’s global director of behavioral science. In 2021, she
... See moreAnnie Duke • Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away
Keith Ferrazzi, a consultant and management speaker, related that a talk on how companies can accomplish cultural change prompted a manager in the audience to note the similarities in Ferrazzi’s prescriptions to elements of addiction programs.30 For good reason: Successful efforts at change at the individual or the organizational level have many el
... See moreJeffrey Pfeffer • Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time
ACT SOON • Become a student of your business model, work to develop a broad and deep understanding of every department, function, and process that impacts business success. • Identify those in your business who seem to be really good at navigating the human dynamics within the organization and begin to model their behavior. • Begin playing “positiv
... See moreDan Rust • Workplace Poker: Are You Playing the Game, or Just Getting Played?
You need to start by building out a layer of high-performers within your own team. Before you go broad, adapt and iterate on the culture you want to build among that group. Then, just as they are ready to move up in their career ladders, facilitate cross-functional moves into key roles for them. This w... See more
Superhuman
The Expertise Economy: How the Smartest Companies Use Learning to Engage, Compete, and Succeed, “The one-size-fits-all mentality of corporate education is no longer relevant. Learning needs to be customized for each individual based on their skill and knowledge gaps, personal and professional goals, and specific interests.” That puts the onus on yo
... See moreWilliam Arruda • Digital You: Real Personal Branding in the Virtual Age
Kirsten Nevill-Manning,