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Influential Reading: Six Books I Return to Regularly

Idea Architects

A meeting I recently attended had participants introduce themselves by sharing a book that influenced our thinking about leadership and organizations. From that list, here are six of the books I find myself returning to and re-reading regularly (in alphabetical order). Just one we all cried? a simpler way by Margaret A.

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Don’t Get Too Comfortable at the Top–AI Puts a Twist on Leadership

.orgSource

Several years ago, my business partner Kevin Ordonez and I, wrote two books. leadership is how we christened the skill set we identified for success in digital markets. The leadership qualities we identified hold. They work together to make the leap from ideas to processes. Give your leadership skills a twist.

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Why Empathy is the Key to Outstanding Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations

Beth Kanter

Recently, we have been exploring a fascinating topic that is not only close to our hearts, but very timely due to burnout in the nonprofit sector – empathetic leadership. Empathetic leadership, to us, is about seeing through the eyes of others. Now, you might be wondering, “how do we practice empathy in our leadership styles?”

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Book of the Month - February 2019

Association Success

The guide book to lead you into the next era of the association industry is ready! Kevin Ordonez and Sherry Budziak have a combined 40 years of leadership and executive consulting experience. This book highlights skills that leaders can use to outpace change and tame chaos. Using big data to deliver member satisfaction.

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Book Review: Joan Garry’s Guide to Nonprofit Leadership

Beth Kanter

She has packed all that into her new book, “ Joan Garry’s Guide to Nonprofit Leadership.” ” I was honored to write a book blurb after reading an early draft, but my copy just arrived in the mail and wanted to share review on my blog as part of my preparation for doing an interview with her next week.

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Book of the Month - March 2019

Association Success

says Jamie, and this guide will help organizations start making changes to specific processes and technologies to make each and every member of their team more successful. Corporate culture experts Maddie Grant and Jamie Notter explain how engagement hasn’t been improving partly because we’ve been defining it wrong all along. “

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Thanks For Playing: Book Review: Humanize

Thanks For Playing

Book Review: Humanize. If youre one of my regular readers - or someone who knows me IRL - you probably know of my disdain for business books. Authors Maddie Grant and Jamie Notter use the lens of social media to examine our "modern" business, management, and leadership practices and find them au courant.with the Industrial Revolution.

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