品牌：
基本信息
·出版社：Crown Business
·页码：288 页码
·出版日：2007年
·ISBN：9780307337207
·条码：9780307337207
·版次：2007-08-21
·装帧：精装
·开本：20开 20开
内容简介
Book Description
Surprisingly, it’s not about education or pedigree or even native smarts. Most of us are like jack welch, who started life as a lowercase guy, the son of a railroad conductor, but went on to become the most celebrated and successful executive of recent years. Sure, Jack Welch—and lots of other people like him—are smart and talented, but there are countless people even smarter and more talented who stall out on the way up. Something else is going on. What is it, and what can the rest of us learn from such people to improve our own chances of accomplishment?
Stephen Baum uncovers not only the business secrets of prominent CEOs but their inner stories as well. He ferrets out the real men and women behind the public personas, learning about life-shaping experiences they all have in common that turn out to be the foun-dation for true success in career and in life. Baum has gotten them to recall key moments that they hadn’t thought about for years, as well as the fears, emotions, and learning they’ve experienced during moments of challenge and doubt.
These seminal events are “archetypal shaping experiences”—critical and often unexpected learning moments when future leaders take advantage of challenges thrown in their path:
? When you take calculated personal risks without the safety net of specific instructions on how to proceed.
? When you are clueless about how to solve a knotty problem but dive in and prepare yourself to work through it.
? When you learn to swim in water over your head, make the tough choice, get good on your feet, or
are forced to take a hard look in the mirror. These character-building moments engender an inner core of toughness and confidence that is the real key to leadership in any business or endeavor—they are what made jack welch . . . JACK WELCH.
Stephen Baum provides an entirely new way of thinking about how to fulfill your dreams and aspirations. You’ll come away with the feeling that “if they can do it, so can I” . . . and that is the first step on the journey to becoming
FromPublishers Weekly
Though the title suggests a focus on the famous General Electric CEO's many accomplishments and leadership skills, this management guide draws on the experiences of many other leaders, including Rudy Giuliani and Gen. Tommy Franks, as well as leaders in corporations like Florida Power and Light or Hearst. With intriguing chapter titles like Are You Really Jack Welch or Just Wearing His Suit? A Lack of Shaping Experiences Can Spell Disaster or Doing the Right Thing When No One is Looking: Shaping Experiences that Build Character, the book attempts to show the reader how to seek out and recognize experiences that will help in their own rise to the top. Yet many of the traits Baum focuses on, such as good character or personal courage, seem inherent and hard to develop. In addition, these shaping experiences seem difficult to seek out or even realize in the moment. While there's inspiration here, the abstract nature of these leaders' qualities may leave readers full of admiration for those who possess them, yet unsure of how to recognize and improve on these essential characteristics in their own lives. (Aug.)
FromBooklist
Baum is a leadership coach who works behind the scenes guiding CEOs and senior management through times of challenge and change. The more he got to know top-level executives intimately, both personally and professionally, the more he wanted to know what had shaped these men and women into great leaders. He discovered that most came from quite ordinary backgrounds and were not necessarily the smartest kids in class or destined to enter the corporate sphere. Few came from wealthy families, went to Ivy League schools, or earned MBAs. What they do share in common, however, is a pattern of life experiences he calls archetypal shaping experiences that caused them to experience exceptional personal growth leading to strong character and the confidence to seek challenges, take on risk, act when necessary, and engage and inspire others. Baum effectively digs into the character-building experiences that created such leaders as Jim Broadhead, the executive who turned around Florida Power & Light; David Neeleman, founder of JetBlue; New York mayor Rudy Giuliani; former Nebraska senator Bob Kerry; General Tommy Franks; and many others. Siegfried, David
Book Dimension
length: (cm)19.7 width:(cm)12.8
作者简介
STEPHEN H. BAUM has been an adviser and coach to CEOs for more than twenty years, first as a partner with Booz Allen Hamilton, now as an independent practitioner and director of the Point Group Network. In addition to his private practice, Mr. Baum chairs a group of New York City CEOs who help one another with sensitive personal and business issues under the aegis of the CEO membership organization Vistage International. He also hosts Inside the CEO, a leadership development series at Baruch College in which he conducts unscripted Q&A sessions with well-known CEOs about life experiences that prepared them to lead. Through Harvard Community Partners of Connecticut, Mr. Baum leads workshops in leadership excellence for executive directors and board chairs of not-for-profits.
DAVE CONTI is a writer and editor specializing in business and self-help topics. Formerly, he was executive editor at HarperCollins Publishers, where he edited and published books by many distinguished authors.
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