Michael Useem
MICHAEL USEEM is the William and Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,and director of its Center for Leadership and Change Management. Dr. Useem is also the author of The Leadership Moment. Nine ... [... more]
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The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and ...
 From Amazon.com: To prove their various points, most books on business leadership focus strictly on either a series of standard, contemporary corporate illustrations or a single nontraditional model (such as a specific historic personality or a classic [... more]
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The Go Point: When It's Time to Decide--Knowing What to ...
A Toolbox for Contingencies, April 20, 2007: "Go points" come in all shapes and sizes (as do "no go points") and some have serious implications, as in a crisis. Michael Useem's primary objective in this book is to help his readers to [... more]
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Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win
Unsubstantiated anecdotes: This book is just a collection of somewhat amusing anecdotes, with off-the-cuff musings about what these anecdotes might mean. This type of book is generally not useful, because there is no way to tell whether the anecdotes are [... more]
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Paths to Power
How leaders in the 20th century reached the "apex": I recently read In Their Time, co-authored by Anthony Mayo and Nitin Nohria, in combination with this book whose subtitle correctly indicates what Mayo, Nohria, and Laura Singleton set out to [... more]
CDN$42.95
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Blind Spots: Achieve Success by Seeing What You Can't See
The Ophthalmology of Increased Self-Awareness: As Claudia Shelton explains in the Preface, the material in her book is organized around "three simple focuses": guidance to the development of the perspective and mindset necessary to "see [... more]
CDN$29.99
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