Leadership Articles by Don Blohowiak

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Reverent Leadership: Become a Leader with the 'Right Feelings' Leader's Library   The best leadership book I've read in a very long time isn't a leadership tome, but is a profound guide to leading effectively. Full Text

Review: Ideas Are Free Leader's Library   In a stalled but still fiercely competitive economy, organizations need to turn on the innovation spigot for a flood of business creativity -- by everyone on the payroll. In answering that call to arms, Professors Alan G. Robinson & Dean M. Schroeder offer some worthwhile and occasionally surprising and compelling contributions in their new book Ideas Are Free. Full Text

Review: The Art of the Strategist Leader's Library   While there is already a bountiful harvest of materials covering the strategy landscape, retired Air Force Major General William A. Cohen, Ph.D., has made a valuable, highly readable, and practical addition to the strategist's arsenal. Full Text

Review: Shaping the Future Leader's Library   Involved in a major change effort? This book, that challenges the change cliches, might help. Full Text

Artfully Rethinking Leadership Leader's Library   So much business literature is mind-numbingly and illogically recursive, suggesting that breakthroughs for your business will stem from imitating the techniques of other business people.  In his new book, consultant and coach Dick Richards provides lessons from leaders operating outside of corporations: in not-for-profits, the arts, sports, religion, education, government... Leaders succeed, he suggests, when they secure follower commitment by working on, if not mastering, ten competencies in four interrelated domains... Full Text

Potent "Must Read" on Power Leader's Library   Power affects all relationships in a way that is, arguably, either underestimated or misunderstood. Or both.  So a book that takes a fresh-eyed view of personal power is a welcome addition to understanding the complexities that underlie all human relationships, and can make a profound difference in the life of every leader (and everyone you know). Full Text

Social Entrepreneurs to the Rescue Leader's Library   Many people are ready to roll up their sleeves and dig in to fix, or at least substantially address, the very difficult problems that evade governments and established institutions alike. Some folks, author David Bornstein shows us, are doing that already all over the world. Full Text

Thou Shalt Heed & Honor Ancient Lessons Leader's Library   "The Bible," leadership development consultant Lorin Woolfe contends, is the "greatest collection of leadership case studies ever written." He postulates that Biblical tales provide modern managers with "tremendously useful and insightful lessons," because these ancient stories "form some of the major archetypes of our collective consciousness." Can modern managers lead better today by looking back thousands of years? Full Text

Humility Aside, Here's Food for Thought Leader's Library   Part memoir, part social commentary, part company case study, the book Authentic Leadership is Bill George's wide angle take on, and prescription for, the current state of corporate leadership. Full Text

Manifesto for a Revolution Leader's Library   The feelings of your employees influence the feelings of your customers, and that drives their buying behavior and your profits. How do you make that happen? The Gallup Organization has some intriguing ideas for you. Full Text

Engage—and Keep—Your Employees Leader's Library   Veteran consultants Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans wrote a handy, very practical, advisor for pressured, task-based (and, yes, even gruff) managers who are too consumed to always remember—but who know down deep—that people, the engaged and motivated variety, really do make the difference in producing great results. Full Text

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