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Leadership Therapy

Autor Anna Rowley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 ian 2009
In this insightful book, Microsoft consulting psychologist Anna Rowley draws on fascinating case studies from her twelve years of working with the top levels of Microsoft management, revealing the skills that have helped the company's top executives to maintain market dominance. Rowley's tools have helped her powerhouse clients, who are passionately devoted to their jobs, attain their maximum potential while faced with constant pressure to innovate and excel. In Leadership Therapy, she explains how leaders can develop the characteristics they need to succeed in a demanding environment, including belief, objectivity, insight, connectivity, and ambition.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780230611313
ISBN-10: 0230611311
Pagini: 243
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations, figures
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Palgrave MacMillan
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Descriere

Microsoft is well-known for being an intense place to work: employees face constant pressure to innovate and excel and are passionately devoted to their jobs. In this insightful book, Anna Rowley reveals the major problems all managers face and shows how to conquer them. She distills the characteristics every leader must have to succeed in a demanding environment, including belief, confidence, self-awareness, trust, power, and ambition. She provides the tools that have helped her clients to continue to attain their potential, while including fascinating case studies of the driven and talented clients she has worked with at Microsoft.Topics covered in Leadership Therapy include how to:* Communicate well, even with difficult colleagues* Negotiate power* Bridgethe gap between the real you and you, the leader* Manage change effectively* Establish  trust among coworkers* Much more!

Cuprins


From Couch to Corporate: The Origins of Short-Term Corporate Therapy
Beliefs: Know Them, Speak Them, Live Them
Confidence: Why We Lose It, and How to Get It Back
Self-Awareness and Your Behavioural Signature
Trust: The Glue That Binds Us
Power and Ambition: Do You Want to be Feared or Loved?
Be Your Own Therapist
Appendix: The Leadership Circumplex

Recenzii


'Leadership Therapy is a perfect book to consult on your journey to mastery. Anna Rowley brings to this work an impressive background of rigorous research in human performance combined with the applied experience of an executive coach to one of the world's most extraordinary companies. I encourage you to take advantage of this unique practical and uplifting resource in discovering who you are as a leader.'
- Jim Kouzes, bestselling author of The Leadership Challenge and A Leader's Legacy
 
'I believe strongly that psychology plays an enormous role in business in addition to all other human affairs. Anna Rowley's Leadership Therapy is a strong, clear, and helpful guide on how it can be used in business.'

- Michael Levine, bestselling author of Broken Windows, Broken Business: How the Smallest Remedies Reap the Biggest Rewards
 
'Don't worry if you never took Psychology 101. Rowley does a nice job explaining critical terminology. She writes in a clear, no-nonsense style, making this a brisk, invigorating read.'

- USA Today

Notă biografică

ANNA ROWLEY, Ph. D.,  is a globally recognized expert in the field of athletic resilience research and performance. Since 1996 she has consulted exclusively to Microsoft around the world. She is the founder of Rowley Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in psychological techniques that help managers to develop leadership skills. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Caracteristici

Microsoft Events: Microsoft has given support to the hardcover with well-attended events. The paperback will be a must-have for its many employees (45,000 within the U.S. alone) and we will continue to push the internal promotion
Breakout International Ideas: Rowley shows how communication can be perfected, how power can be negotiated, and how individual challenges can be addressed. It gives international examples from Europe to India
Authors Profile Growing: Anna has begun consulting for Yahoo