Leadership Therapy: Inside the Mind of Microsoft

ISBN-13: 9780230611313 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str.

A Rowley

Opis

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.

Spis treści

- 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

O autorze

DR. ANNA ROWLEY is a globally recognized expert in the field of resilience research and performance. She is the founder of Rowley Associates, Inc., a consulting firm working exclusively with Microsoft and specializing in psychological techniques that help managers to develop leadership skills. She is a trained psychologist and has written for scientific publications such as The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and The British Medical Journal as well as general publications such as The Observer. Since 1996 she has consulted exclusively to Microsoft in North America, Europe, and Asia.