Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

The authors of the new book, More Human , state there are three primary ways that AI (Artificial Intelligence) can transform how we think about leadership: It can save us time so we can focus on creating more-human experiences for employees. In their book, Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter delve deeper into each of these benefits.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 15, 2022

Making hybrid meetings work well requires planning, preparation and know-how – skillsets that are different from managing traditional face-to-face meetings. We encourage you to not read the book passively but rather to actively engage with it by using its tools to assess yourself and your organization,” share the authors Karin M. “We

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

It’s not easy to make it to a library right now, and with a long winter stuck at home looming ahead for many of us, there’s never been a better time to hunker down with a good book. We’ve also listed our favorite streaming shows on Disney Plus, Hulu, ESPN Plus , and Netflix ; some great sci-fi books ; and exciting new podcasts.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

The book, Power To The Middle , shows how managers are the crucial link between a company’s ground floor and top brass. However, new KcKinsey research reveals that this outdated perspective needs to change and that well-developed managers are the strategy that companies must prioritize to succeed today,” they add.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Here is a book that provides workplace leaders an urgently needed methodology for helping companies to reduce worker loneliness, and it delivers a blueprint for building strong, high-performing workplace teams. The book is, Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams From Isolated To All In , by Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Making hybrid meetings work well requires planning, preparation and know-how – skillsets that are different from managing traditional face-to-face meetings. We encourage you to not read the book passively but rather to actively engage with it by using its tools to assess yourself and your organization,” share the authors Karin M. “We

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 29, 2022

Each year, after reading and reviewing dozens of new leadership books, I select my pick for the year's best new leadership book. For 2019, that book is Paul Smith's, The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell , released this past summer. You can read this book in an hour or less. Today's Flashback: A look back to 2019.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 6, 2025

Stumped for what business books to add to your spring (or spring break) reading list? Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. This book is a wake-up call for every business leader. His advice?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

"Stories strengthen communications and presence for leaders," explains Kristi Hedges , author of the book, The Power of Presence. She recommends you consider adding stories to your communications when you : Want to motivate others and paint a picture of what's possible.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 3, 2022

Forbes recently named, A New Way To Think , as one of the 10 must-read books for 2022. In the book, authored by Roger L. Question: In your book, you write that if you feel comfortable with your strategic plan, there’s a strong chance it isn’t very good. Our choices need to be designed to compel customer action.

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.orgSource

MARCH 4, 2024

Sharon Rice ,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy, is our expert for guiding associations through tough markets. Actually, the process is based on three decades of research conducted by authors Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. The authors use Cirque du Soleil to illustrate this idea. Sharks are looking for a meal.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

I am writing this — call it a lament, a plea, a whine — not as a grant writer or as the co-author of a book about how to write grant proposals, but as a donor. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not a zillionaire philanthropist. I do, however, donate relatively small (not to me) sums to numerous nonprofit organizations.

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 2, 2024

I am a big fan of Dan Pink, author of the best-selling books Drive , When , The Power of Regret , and so many others. If your goal is to clean up the dead and outdated content on your website, your action plan might look like this: Ask your web manager or web vendor to create an updated inventory of all of the content on your website.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The 12-Week MBA offers an alternative way to learn business essentials by focusing on the skills and knowledge required to succeed as both a manager and a business leader. In addition, the book provides an excellent glossary of most used terms within business. When we're in a book club, we get that social validation.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Image from Unsplash Building a Semantic Book Search: Scale an Embedding Pipeline with Apache Spark and AWS EMR Serverless Using OpenAI’s Clip model to support natural language search on a collection of 70k book covers In a previous post I did a little PoC to see if I could use OpenAI’s Clip model to build a semantic book search.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

Speaking about his new book, The Generous Leader , author Joe Davis says, “This book is about the ways in which you can become a generous leader to be part of something bigger than yourself.” Davis is a Managing Director and Senior Partner at the Boston Consulting Group.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2021

Martínez, a former Facebook product manager on the ad targeting team, authored a controversial book about Silicon Valley where he expressed misogynistic views on women. “We Antonio García Martínez is no longer working at Apple hours after employees circulated a petition calling for an investigation into his hiring.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

More specifically, Liz Wiseman , author of the book, Impact Players , explains that: While others do their job, Impact Players figure out the real job to be done. It is also a book for todays leaders, those managers who want to cultivate more of this mindset on their teams. Asking for feedback. And, available to all.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

He is also President and Managing Director of Digital Strategy for.orgSource , and my co-author of the Association 4.0 Our research resulted in two books dedicated to positioning executives for success in digital markets. Navigate Industry 4.0 or the digital revolution. Kevin is.orgCommunity’s Co-Founder. leadership.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2022

In truth, doing hard things and making difficult decisions is often the most compassionate thing to do,” explain the authors of the timely and compelling new book, Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way. Wondering how to unlearn management and relearn being human? In this way, compassion is an intention.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Financial managers make understanding the group’s risk tolerance a defining component of their strategy. There are multiple reasons to make both the upside and the downside of risk management a broader topic of board discussion. In a Harvard Business Review Article , authors Robert S. No one was exempt.

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.orgSource

JULY 29, 2023

The recommendations for successfully managing these challenges—whether they result from poor judgment, bad luck, or any disheartening combination of unfavorable circumstances—are straightforward. books , the importance of connections was a recurring theme. Many of the contributors to our books are compulsive readers.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Bruce Tulgan s book, The Art of Being Indispensable at Work is all about how to win influence, beat overcommitment, and get the right things done in your workplace. Tulgan is a bestselling author, an adviser to business leaders throughout the world, and a keynote speaker.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In truth, doing hard things and making difficult decisions is often the most compassionate thing to do,” explain the authors of the timely and compelling new book, Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way. Wondering how to unlearn management and relearn being human? In this way, compassion is an intention.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 2, 2024

This time from Travis Bradberry , author and Chief People Scientist, LeadX, “Digital transformation is not just about technology; it’s about people. And the key to managing people through change is emotional intelligence.” If you want to manage successful digital initiatives, try abandoning that thinking.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

To accomplish something great, author Matt Higgins says you need to toss your Plan B overboard and burn the boats. Youll learn plenty more about what it means to burn the boats, how to unleash your full potential, and how to tear down your barriers to achieving success in Higgins new book, Burn The Boats a business-advice and self-help book.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Mark Settle is a seven-time CIO, three-time CIO 100 award winner and two-time book author. His most recent book is "Truth from the Valley: A Practical Primer on IT Management for the Next Decade.". Privacy data management innovations reduce risk, create new revenue channels. Contributor.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

How can I manage the core business while innovating for the future? then the new book, Both/And Thinking , by authors Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis , is for you. As the book explains, that better way is both/and thinking versus traditional either/or thinking. How do I balance work and life? But there is a better way.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 17, 2024

Forbes named, A New Way To Think , as one of the 10 must-read books for 2022. In the book, authored by Roger L. Question: In your book, you write that if you feel comfortable with your strategic plan, there’s a strong chance it isn’t very good. Our choices need to be designed to compel customer action.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In his book, Education is Freedom , author James W. Keyes recaps his learned business lessons for top management and CEOs at companies of all sizes. And in his book, he shares much about his time at Blockbuster and that company’s journey. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Okay, screenwriters, directors, authors, and production companies — we get it. MGM optioned a movie based on a book that hasn’t even been written yet whose author you’ll probably know from the book that became David Fincher’s The Social Network. Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge. And yes, a TV show.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Today brings a new book and step-by-step guide for specialists, professionals, managers and independent contracts who want to achieve success in their work. Specifically, the book teaches how to demonstrate the value of your initiatives, using a simplified version of the ROI Methodology. Patricia Pulliam Phillips and Jack J.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

“No matter your title, or how advanced you already consider yourself to be as an inclusive leader, I believe this book will help you evolve and motivate you to take action,” says Jennifer Brown about her book, How To be An Inclusive Leader: Your Role In Creating Cultures Of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Today brings the new and inspiring book, Making Waves , by Lisa Lutof-Perlo. In the book, she reveals how she navigated an extraordinary four-decade journey with boundless energy, quick wit, and the pursuit of excellence in the face of adversity. Thank you to the authors for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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.orgSource

JUNE 5, 2023

She’s also the author of two books, “Building Your Brand” and “Connect to Influence.” “The I was interested to hear Allison’s comments on managing an organization specifically for women across such a broad canvas. They have distinct viewpoints about activities like financial management and the execution of programs and services.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Human leaders must be able to lead not only with their heads but also with their hearts and souls,” says veteran executive coach Hortense le Gentil , author of the new book, The Unlocked Leader: Dare to Free Your Own Voice, Lead with Empathy, and Shine Your Light in the World.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Each year, I select my pick for the best new leadership book released that year. Some years, among the many books about leadership that I read, there is another book that is so good, it becomes my runner up for the best new leadership book of the year. And effective communication is essential for successful leadership.

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