Download or read book Tales from the Boardroom written by Drew Tanzman and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being diagnosed with ALS last year, Drew Tanzman decided to finally put a pen to the book he'd been writing in his head for decades. Based on lessons he learned in the sports, business and diplomacy worlds, and finally the fighting of the disease itself, Drew has written a beautiful memoir paying tribute to the " Seize the Day " mentality and the beauty of embracing each and every adventure life can bring.
Download or read book Telling Fairy Tales in the Boardroom written by Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We know where we are with a fairy story. There is a cast of predictable characters, the hero or heroine is submitted to terrible trials, cruelty, and injustice but in the end the baddies get their comeuppance, good triumphs, and everyone lives happily ever after. In this book Manfred Kets de Vries, one of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of leadership, and a pioneering practitioner in the field of psychodynamic executive coaching, draws on the format of traditional fairy tales and tells us five stories that dramatize five key themes of dysfunctional leadership. The accompanying commentaries analyze each tale and examine the ways in which it applies to leadership behavior and organizational practices. This diagnostic element is supported by self-assessment tests that reinforce the main lessons of each tale and guide the reader's interpretation of the results. With Kets de Vries's guidance you'll be able to help your clients create best places to work, where everyone is the best they can be, and lives 'happily ever after'.
Download or read book Barbarians in the Boardroom written by Owen Walker and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rising from the Mailroom to the Boardroom written by Bruce Turner and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boards and business leaders expect their key advisors to deliver fresh insights, and increasingly expect them to demonstrate foresight. To achieve what is expected, it is crucial to understand the dynamics of conversations in the boardroom and around the audit committee table. This book provides those unique perspectives. The journey from the ‘mailroom to the boardroom’ follows the story of a young banker who moved into the internal auditing profession as part of the ‘new breed’, then rose through the ranks into senior leadership and chief audit executive roles, before assuming audit committee and board roles that had an immense influence on governance, risk, compliance, and audit professionals. Success does not always follow a smooth and uneventful trajectory, and this story reflects insights from both the ups and the downs of the journey. Each chapter shares insights, better practices, case studies, practical examples, and real-life challenges and draws them together into 101 building blocks, each one providing crucial career-long learnings. The storytelling provides insights to people at all levels on the importance of positioning oneself to step into leadership roles, helps them understand how to evaluate and pursue potential career growth opportunities, provides tips on how to holistically manage and advance their career, and inspires higher-level thinking that enhances governance, risk, compliance and audit practices.
Download or read book Take Off Your Shoes written by Ben Feder and published by Radius Book Group+ORM. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A success-driven CEO goes on a year-long journey of self-discovery in Bali in this memoir about rediscovering what’s truly important. A hard-charging CEO of a large enterprise, Ben Feder discovers that he is losing the very things that sustained him over his years of business success. Unsettled by his insight, he becomes determined to rebuild family relationships and rejuvenate his sense of purpose. Risking his career, Feder left New York with his wife and children and set off on a self-prescribed sabbatical year. That experience transforms them all. As Feder navigates the thrills and pitfalls of his time away, he draws readers into remarkable examinations of modern values and modern life. Take Off Your Shoes is Feder’s candid and personable account of a journey across the world, and within himself.
Download or read book Naked in the Boardroom written by Robin Wolaner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-03-08 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned media executive Robin Wolaner delivers the 80 Naked Truths businesswomen need to develop presence, seize power, and achieve success. Straight-talking and sensible, Naked in the Boardroom explains how to achieve more: more opportunities, more money, more notches on the corporate belt without sacrificing your integrity or losing your identity. In delicious, bite-sized nuggets, Robin Wolaner's Naked Truths provide universal and instantly gratifying lessons for advancing your career. They can be put into action regardless of your age, experience, industry, or whether you are a one-woman start-up or a big-company employee. Drawing on her own career in magazine publishing and media development, Wolaner shows you how to succeed because of, rather than despite, your unique background and personality. With humor, attitude, and fierce intelligence, she reveals: The keys to successful negotiation on behalf of the company or yourself What great public speakers know and tricks you can use When and how to burn your career plan How to do the right thing in the gray zones of business ethics Effective ways to recover from a mistake Unusual wisdom for hiring and firing -- and for being hired and fired And much more Peppered with candid stories drawn from Wolaner's life, as well as those of other trailblazing women, Naked in the Boardroom is both essential and inspiring. It provides invaluable wisdom for anyone who sees success on the horizon, but who wants help getting there on her own terms.
Download or read book Inside the Boardroom written by William G. Bowen and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1994-06-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bill Bowen’s powerful insights into the principles and practices of institutional governance make his new book ‘must reading’ for all board members." —H. B. Atwater, Jr. Chairman of the Board and CEO General Mills, Inc. "The ‘old boys’ club’ of the boardroom no longer works as companies and organizations re-engineer for the global challenge. Dr. Bowen’s thoughtful and incisive analysis of issues and his prescriptions for good governance are must reading for all responsible board members." —W. Michael Blumenthal Former Secretary of the Treasury and Limited Partner, Lazard Freres & Co. "This thoughtful, lively, and well-written comparison of the many similarities and striking differences in the governance of not-for-profit and for-profit corporations is a unique resource from which both sectors will benefit.… This valuable book, and in particular its twenty ‘presumptive norms’ to govern how boards function, will certainly establish a new and important agenda for management and directors." —Helene L. Kaplan Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom "Dr. Bowen brings to Inside the Boardroom unusual qualifications: a distinguished economist who has served as university president, foundation executive, and [as a member of] several for-profit and nonprofit boards of directors. From this varied experience he combines scholarship with corporate reality in ways which provide wisdom, insight, and guidance as to how boards should work and how in fact they do work, and what they can and cannot contribute to management. Best of all, he does so in a thoroughly readable way." —Nicholas Katzenbach, Partner Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland and Perretti Former United States Attorney General Former Senior Vice President and General Counsel, IBM Corporation "This superb study rests on Bowen’s extensive experience of both corporate and nonprofit boards and his personal qualities of lucidity, perceptiveness, intellectual acuity, and fair-mindedness. Readable, fresh, jargon-free, and thoughtful, the book is a gem." —Richard W. Lyman President Emeritus, The Rockefeller Foundation President Emeritus, Stanford University "William Bowen is the finest example of America’s meritocracy. He rose, by ability and wisdom, from Main Street to the highest counsel of business and philanthropy while gaining along the way admiration for scholarly innovations as an economist and leadership as President of Princeton University. In this short book he addresses—from experience and with analytical precision—the vital problem of how outside directors might help improve governance of business corporations and non-profit institutions. Read. Ponder." —Paul A. Samuelson Nobel Laureate in Economics Department of Economics, M.I.T.
Download or read book Witch in the Boardroom written by Stacey DeMarco and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Must cutthroat tactics and backstabbing be synonymous with “getting ahead?” Does success in the corporate world equal spiritless, energy-draining drudgery? Successful business leader and experienced Witch Stacey Demarco, insists that spirituality and business are not mutually exclusive. Combining Wiccan principles with down-to-earth business techniques, Witch in the Boardroom demonstrates how to rejuvenate your career and your spiritual life. Demarco illustrates how to achieve material and spiritual fulfillment in the workplace by applying Witchcraft laws, spellworking, and magical thinking. Inspiring stories from the author's own case studies confirm the potency of the rituals and spells outlined in this Wiccan-based guide to business success.
Download or read book Here s Jonny written by Jonny Fowler and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's Jonny: Tales of Gratitude from the Oilfield to the Boardroom, details the wild ride that has been Jonny Fowler's life. As a native Texan born into trying financial circumstances, Jonny could only fantasize about a different existence, and one day, earning enough money to leave his old life behind. He was given no leg up and attached himself to no wealthy relatives or friends, yet he leveraged every opportunity possible to blow his own mind with newfound potential.Jonny shares his experiences with you to help you find success sooner, to encourage you to reach for what may seem to be impossible, creating a new reality for yourself. His personal life has run the gamut from traipsing the globe, to surviving tragedy and heartbreak. But as Jonny relates his story, one fact is clear. He never stopped learning from his mistakes. He actually looked forward to making them because he knew they would help him to be his best self. He urges you to adopt the same mindset. Here's Jonny: Tales of Gratitude from the Oilfield to the Boardroom also describes Jonny's most profitable business takeaways, and explains what you need to do to dominate in the modern marketplace and in particular, the mortgage industry. From advising readers on profitable marketing tactics to endorsing specific education and training, Jonny's road-tested and hard-won instruction is your catalyst leading to prosperous employer-employee relationships. This book will enrich every area of your life.
Download or read book The Complete Boardroom Collection written by Abby Green and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 2718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens in the boardroom stays in the boardroom...
Download or read book Jump written by Larry Miller and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most successful Black businessmen in the country, who has led Nike’s Jordan Brand from a $200M sneaker company to a $4B global apparel juggernaut, tells the remarkable story of his rise from gangland violence to the pinnacles of international business. Jump tells Larry Miller’s journey from the violent streets of West Philly in the 1960s to the highest echelons of American sports and industry. Miller wound up in jail more than once, especially as a teenager. But he immersed himself in the educational opportunities, eventually took advantage of a Pennsylvania state education-release program offered to incarcerated people, and was able to graduate with honors from Temple University. When revealing his gangland past caused him to lose his first major job opportunity, Miller vowed to keep it a secret. He climbed the corporate ladder with a number of companies such as Kraft Foods, Campbell’s Soup, and Jantzen, until Nike hired him to run its domestic apparel operations. Around the time of Michael Jordan’s basketball retirement, Nike Chairman Phil Knight made Larry Miller president of the newly formed Jordan Brand. In 2007 Paul Allen convinced Miller to jump to the NBA to become president of the Portland Trailblazers, one of the first African-Americans to lead a professional sports team, before returning to Jordan Brand in 2012. All along, Miller lived two lives: the secret of his violent past haunted him, invading his days with migraines and his sleep with nightmares of getting hauled back to jail. More than a rags-to-riches story, Jump is also a passionate appeal for criminal justice reform and expanded educational opportunities for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people across the United States. Drawing on his powerful personal story, as well as his vast and well-connected network, Miller plans to use Jump as a launching point to help expand such opportunities and to provide an aspirational journey for those who need hope.
Download or read book 10 Steps To The Boardroom written by G.S. Rattan and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no linear path to reach the top. In today's day and age, when there is so much competition and nepotism that is being spoken about, one has to wonder: Does talent and merit have a chance? In my opinion, they do. So how does one knock on the door of success and reach the boardroom? This book takes you through the crucial ten steps you need to climb as you progress in your career to reach the top via the author's own personal journey. Each chapter deals with one specific quality that a CEO is required to have and is accompanied with a worksheet next to it that will help you chart your growth. Peppered with wisdom and experience, each story will help you understand the implications of your decisions and the right career stage that one should look at making a move. An absolute must-have for anyone looking to make a mark in their corporate career.
Download or read book Dear Chairman written by Jeff Gramm and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sharp and illuminating history of one of capitalism’s longest running tensions—the conflicts of interest among public company directors, managers, and shareholders—told through entertaining case studies and original letters from some of our most legendary and controversial investors and activists. Recent disputes between shareholders and major corporations, including Apple and DuPont, have made headlines. But the struggle between management and those who own stock has been going on for nearly a century. Mixing never-before-published and rare, original letters from Wall Street icons—including Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, Ross Perot, Carl Icahn, and Daniel Loeb—with masterful scholarship and professional insight, Dear Chairman traces the rise in shareholder activism from the 1920s to today, and provides an invaluable and unprecedented perspective on what it means to be a public company, including how they work and who is really in control. Jeff Gramm analyzes different eras and pivotal boardroom battles from the last century to understand the factors that have caused shareholders and management to collide. Throughout, he uses the letters to show how investors interact with directors and managers, how they think about their target companies, and how they plan to profit. Each is a fascinating example of capitalism at work told through the voices of its most colorful, influential participants. A hedge fund manager and an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, Gramm has spent as much time evaluating CEOs and directors as he has trying to understand and value businesses. He has seen public companies that are poorly run, and some that willfully disenfranchise their shareholders. While he pays tribute to the ingenuity of public company investors, Gramm also exposes examples of shareholder activism at its very worst, when hedge funds engineer stealthy land-grabs at the expense of a company’s long term prospects. Ultimately, he provides a thorough, much-needed understanding of the public company/shareholder relationship for investors, managers, and everyone concerned with the future of capitalism.
Download or read book Never Enough written by Mike Hayes and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Hayes has lived a lifetime of once-in-a-lifetime experiences. He has been held at gunpoint and threatened with execution. He's jumped out of a building rigged to explode, helped amputate a teammate's leg, and made countless split-second life and death decisions. He's written countless emails to his family, telling them how much he loves them, just in case those were the last words of his they'd ever read. Outside of the SEALs, he's run meetings in the White House Situation Room, negotiated international arms treaties, and developed high-impact corporate strategies.Over his many years of leadership, he has always strived to be better, to contribute more, and to put others first. That's what makes him an effective leader, and it's the quality that he's identified in all of the great leaders he's encountered. That continual striving to lift those around him has filled Mike's life with meaning and purpose, has made him secure in the knowledge that he brings his best to everything he does, and has made him someone others can rely on.In Never Enough, Mike Hayes recounts dramatic stories and offers battle- and boardroom-tested advice that will motivate readers to do work of value, live lives of purpose, and stretch themselves to reach their highest potential.
Download or read book Innovation Chronicles written by Marcillinus O and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Innovation Chronicles: Tales from the Boardroom" unravels a riveting narrative within the corporate labyrinth. As Project Genesis teeters on the brink of success, hidden agendas and secret alliances threaten its very foundation. Richard Holloway, CEO, grapples with a relentless countdown while navigating a web of betrayal and redemption. Isabella Rodriguez, the visionary, faces shadows of suspicion, and James Thornton's pragmatic approach clashes with the enigmatic consultant Lucas Sinclair's neutrality. A revelation of internal sabotage unravels into a high-stakes gambit, exposing external machinations. As the Board confronts a rival corporation and the relentless march of time, the fate of Project Genesis hangs in the balance, making this a gripping tale of corporate intrigue, innovation, and the intricate dance between loyalty and betrayal.
Download or read book Tales from the Top written by Simon Carr and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from the Top is a book to motivate every busy executive. Graham Alexander throws open the boardroom doors and divulges, for the first time, the proven techniques he uses to evoke change and action in thousands of leaders and teams. Top leaders recognise that they can always improve their performance and Graham Alexander knows their problems, because he's hired to solve them. In this inspiring new book, he reveals the 10 questions every leader and aspiring leader must answer in order to stay on top.--1.What's life all about for you?-2.Who are you, and who do others say you are?-3.What's the point for you and your people?-4.What would happen if you did less?-5.What can only you do?-6.Would you do anything differently if you knew you only had a year to live?-7.If your people are your biggest asset, why don't they know who you are?-8.Who pays your salary, and why are you ignoring them?-9.Are you running your business, or is it running you?-10.So now how will you live your life differently ... or is it business as usual?Packed with insights, battlefield stories and real-life successes, Tales from the Top is the must-read book for everyone who wants to reach the top and stay there.
Download or read book Tales from the Inner City written by Shaun Tan and published by Walker Studio. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
