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Oprah Winfrey on Career, Life, and Leadership

By Oprah Winfrey — 2014

During a student-led interview at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Oprah Winfrey shares seminal moments of her career journey and the importance of listening to your instincts. See more...

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The Power of a Graceful Leader

Do you have a division between who you are as a business leader and who you are as a spouse, friend, sister, brother, mother, or father? The awareness of the division that exists within you and the roles you play creates space for your inner voice.

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Alexsys Thompson
2025
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Time for Change: Four Essential Skills for Transformational School and District Leaders

Transformational leaders have four distinctive skills: strong communication, the ability to build trust, the ability to increase the skills of those they lead, and a results orientation.

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Anthony Muhammad, Luis F. Cruz
2019
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The 48 Laws of Power

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws.

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Robert Greene
2025
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The Power of Giving Away Power: How the Best Leaders Learn to Let Go

How do great leaders thrive in uncertain times? By changing their mindsets about power. Why do some organizations grow and thrive with complexity, while others collapse under their own weight? The answer is simple, but transformative: when power is hoarded and lorded over others, it is finite.

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Matthew Barzun
2025
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Esteemed Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Talks Leadership at MU

Focusing on past U.S. presidents, Goodwin highlights key traits of a successful leader. “Even though problems change over time,” Goodwin says, “there are indeed traits that are held inalterable by our most successful leaders.”

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Bennito L. Kelty
2017
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Let Them Lead: Unexpected Lessons in Leadership from America’s Worst High School Hockey Team

When John U. Bacon played for the Ann Arbor Huron High School River Rats, he never scored a goal. Yet somehow, years later he found himself leading his alma mater’s downtrodden program.

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John U. Bacon
2021
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Leadership, Reinvented: How to Foster Empathy, Servitude, Diversity, and Innovation in the Workplace

Traditional leadership has been long overdue for reinvention. Become a respected and successful leader in the modern workplace with Leadership, Reinvented. You’ll find actionable insights, practical advice, and essential strategies for people in various organizations and levels of leadership.

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Hamza Khan
2021
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Power Can Corrupt Leaders. Compassion Can Save Them

Research has found that incorporating compassion into your leadership strategy can increase productivity and happiness.

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Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter, and Louise Chester
2018
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The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence

A revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most influence over others and the result is power as a force for good in the world.

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Dacher Keltner
2017
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Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead

A groundbreaking women’s leadership expert and popular conference speaker gives women the practical skills to voice and implement the changes they want to see—in themselves and in the world In her coaching and programs for women, Tara Mohr saw how women were “playing small” in their lives...

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Tara Mohr
2015
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