In the 1950s, as home and work chores became increasingly mechanized and as the electronics revolution hinted at an even more startling efficiency to come, futurists made a bold prediction: by the year 2000, the average person would work only 20 or 30 hours a week. There would be so much leisure time that most of us wouldn?t know what to do with it. We now know that these ?50s oracles were wron…

In his two decades at the helm of GE, Jack Welch did more to add to the leadership literature than any other CEO of the modern era. Not only did he give more thought to the business of leadership,Welch devised principles, strategies, and tenets to lead by. In creating one of the world?s most competitive corporations, Welch created his own lexicon, a new language that gave voice to the new metho…

Looking back, it?s hard to imagine that a few short essays could have had so much impact on business thinking. Addressed to the chief executives of large enterprises, Perspectives developed a devoted following, even circulating in bootleg copies in some companies. Perspectives challenged executives to think about their businesses strategically rather than simply operationally. They combined eco…

Why, the world asked, did a group of seemingly intelligent individuals, possessing marketable skills, and comfortably housed in an upscale neighborhood, decide to kill themselves? They did it because of their belief that by committing suicide in this manner, they would shed their bodies, or ?earthly containers,? and be whisked away by extraterrestrials to a spaceship and a higher level of exist…

LET ME BEGIN on a personal note. On September 10, 2001, I had worked long into the night making revisions to the book that you are now holding. So I was still asleep at 7 a.m., Pacific Standard Time, when a relative called and blurted out something about the World Trade Center in New York City having been attacked by terrorists. Still groggy, I flicked on the TV. From that moment on, I?like mil…

Tahun Terbit

1996

Deskripsi Fisik

xvi, 247p. : ilus. ; 25cm.

No. Panggil

371.33/SAL/f

Durham, Marcus write all about succes leadership, organizational structure, orgnizational resources, purpose, vision, planning, Negotiation, global leadership ang ethics and professonal

The book would not have been written without the men and women who generously gave their time and shared their career transition experiences with me. While some of them are featured here, many?from whom I learned as much?are not. I deeply appreciate the lessons they taught me and I value the confidence they placed in me by allowing me to tell their stories. I am particularly indebted to Kent Li…

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life. The vast majority of companies never become g…

We know everything we need to know to end the needless emotional suffering that many people currently experience. High self-esteem and personal effectiveness are available to anyone willing to take the time to pursue them. It is difficult to translate the spirit of a live presentation into the written word. Stories we tell every day have had to be rewritten five times to work as well in print a…