Product Description: In The Type B Manager, Victor Lipman offers a unique lens through which to view the challenging problems of management. While management has long been considered the realm of Type A individuals—hard-driving, competitive high achievers—all too often these high-intensity traits aren’t effective when it comes to motivating your employees...read more

Product Description: "Coached to Lead" is the first consumer's guide to executive coaching. Drawing on her twenty years of experience and direct research with an elite international clientele, renowned CEO coach Susan Battley offers step-by-step advice for achieving the same extraordinary results that top leaders get from executive coaching...read more

Product Description: Employee and manager rebellions occur more often than you might think. This book argues how important it is to take these protests seriously. The authors demonstrate that when middle managers rebel, they aren't just letting off steam, and that their acts of creative protest can even produce benefits for their companies...read more

Product Description: Top leaders are seeking answers. International executive coach, confidant to the captains of industry, and catalyst for change Graham Alexander's approach is to ask the right questions to help leaders find the right answers.In Tales from the Top, Alexander demonstrates how honest answers to effective questions propel leaders to break down barriers preventing them from operating at their highest levels of capability...read more

Explains how good managers can select, focus, motivate, and develop their employees in order to transform talent into performance

Applying Machiavelli's coldly pragmatic world view to the modern business world, the author offers readers with few moral scruples a battle plan for climbing the company ladder, or preventing others from doing so. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Presenting the Provocateur as a new leadership model for modern-day business, the author explains why such a model has replaced the General in the new world of the Internet, profiling such key leaders as Rick Wagoner of General Motors and Lou Gerstner of IBM who represent the future of business success. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Why can't a man be more like a woman? seems to be the catchphrase of modern management gurus. They claim to be revaluing feminine 'soft' skills as qualities necessary for corporate success. This book looks behind the rhetoric and investigates the gender relations of senior management in a post equal opportunities world...read more

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