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Best New Leadership And Business Book Of 2020

Eric Jacobsen Blog

This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership and business book for the year. I selected this book because Magnuson tells it like it is, provides clear, practical, actionable advice and speaks with authenticity and in a conversational style that will resonate with young career professionals. Magnuson : So much!

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Best New Leadership Book Of 2014

Eric Jacobsen Blog

After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Font-Line Leader: Building a High-PerformanceOrganization from the Groumd Up , by Chris Van Gorder. You’ll find the 200-page book easy to read. Van Gorder : Reinvention starts with a positive attitude.

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Becoming A Networked Nonprofit Workshop: Reflections from Junior Achievement Worldwide

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We had a range of attitudes about the value of social media. One of the common things I hear when teach workshops on social media is “We don’t have the time.&# We make the point in the book that if nonprofits make the shift from scarcity to abundance thinking – they will be able to leverage their networks.

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Foundational Tools For First-Time Leaders

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The forthcoming First-Time Leader book by George Bradt and Gillian Davis begins with a discussion of taking charge of your new team and then tracks through BRAVE leadership components from the outside in. The term reflects an acronym that stands for behaviors, relationships, attitudes, values and environment.

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Reflections from Independent Sector and Blackbaud Conferences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Interesting to discover a line from the book, “Social Media is a contact sport, not a spectator sport&# was a conversation driver. If you were not able to attend, there is terrific coverage of the event. Take for example this post from Rosita Cortez pointing to five videos of presentations.

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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Meg Ward, Co-Founder of Gravitate Solutions, and a contributor to our book, “Association 4.0 : An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” described her company’s hiring process like this. Hiring employees who are the right fit for this positive environment is a top priority.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. That they have a “Do good where ever attitude.” The New Social Economy. This session was a high level view of what is happening in the ecosystem in which I do my work. They want to combine both.

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