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Bring Your Brain to Work
book

Bring Your Brain to Work

by Art Markman
May 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
256 pages
5h 36m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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Leading

Human beings may be a cooperative species, but to get everyone working together toward a common goal, organizations have to know where they want to go and how to get there. That is the job of leadership.

I had the opportunity to work on a leadership education plan for the University of Texas. Our goal was not to train every one of our students to be a leader, though we certainly hope that many of them will take leadership roles in their careers. Instead, we wanted students to understand what good leadership is so that they can practice it and can recognize when they are working with an effective leader.

A lot of ink has been spilled trying to distinguish between leadership and its cousin management. People use the words in varying ways, ...

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ISBN: 9781633696129