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How Not to Lead: 250 Peer-reviewed Tips
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This book will change your life (in one way or another). Topics include "Building Emotional (Un)intelligence," "Being Hardcore," and "How to Ignore High Performers and Intimidate Others." It has tips and best practices and key takeaways that will blow your mind. It'll make you feel like a BOSS. Did you buy the book yet? Buy a couple for friends,
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Jen Knox
Jen Knox is an educator and writer living in Ohio. Her writing appears in over a hundred publications around the world, including The Best Small Fictions (edited by Amy Hempel), Chicago Tribune, Chicago Quarterly Review, Room Magazine, and The Saturday Evening Post. Her collections include The Glass City (Prize Americana winner), Resolutions (AUX Media), and After the Gazebo (a Pen/Faulkner nominee). Jen's chapbook of flash fiction, Dandelion Ghosts, was released in 2021, and she is currently working on a craft book about how to write compelling fiction. Jen's first novel, We Arrive Uninvited, won the Steel Toe Books Award for Prose and was a second rounder of the Launch Pad Prose competition, and made #6 on the Coverfly Redlist for adaptable fiction.
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How Not to Lead - Jen Knox
Published by Unleash Press
© 2023 by Jen Knox and Ashley Holloway
Book cover design and illustrations by Christopher J. Shanahan
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No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and specific other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.
Printed in the United States of America
ISBN 979-8-9862743-8-6
E-ISBN 978-1-7375194-3-0
Highlights
Introduction
The Golden Rule
Quick tips on Emotional (Un)intelligence
Online Communications
How to Stroke Your Ego at Every Turn
General Best Practices
At the Office
Team-building Strategies
Notes on Hierarchies
Be Hardcore!
Human Resources Tips
How Not to Lead Meetings
Ignore High Performers & Intimidate Others
Notes on Exclusivity
Fun Bonus Tips
Final Takeaways
Introduction
Truly terrible leaders do not properly introduce ideas. Carry on.
The Golden Rule
Always assume everyone’s primary focus is to advance your legacy of greatness.
Quick
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