当他当选总统之后,我们才发现他早已是一个在美国亚马逊上排名前列的畅销书作家--尤其是他的几本商业类图书,比如Trump: How to Get Rich、Think Big 、Trump: the Art of Deal(交易的艺术)和Never Give Up (中文名:永不放弃)。 无论从政治、历史、传记,还是管理、商业的角度,你都应该了解美国新任总统特朗普的这些著作。其中 交易的艺术 被火速疯传是特朗普做一个个精彩谈判的方向,到底这本书有什么神奇之处能让川普成功登上元首宝座呢? Trump makes one believe for a moment in the American dream again. The New York Times Donald Trump is a deal maker. He is a deal maker the way lions are carnivores and water is wet. Chicago Tribune Fascinating . . . wholly absorbing . . . conveys Trump s larger-than-life demeanor so vibrantly that the reader s attention is instantly and fully claimed. Boston Herald A chatty, generous, chutzpa-filled
This book challenges the way we think about both leadershipdevelopment and ourselves as leaders. Leadership developmentprograms are meant to help people become better leaders at work.But, as author Stew Friedman knows through years of working withthousands of executives, people improve their performance asleaders only when they enhance their performance in other domainsof their life at the same time. People are most successful in theirleadership roles in organisations when they are also leaders oftheir own lives; that is, when they increase their capacity toinfluence everything they care about most in life, including work,family, the broader community, and their own sense of self. This iswhat Friedman calls Total Leadership and has been teaching to MBAsand Executive Education students at Wharton and to executives inseveral companies like Ford, Booz Allen Hamilton, and LehmanBrothers for several years.
Making persuasive presentations isn't just amatter of charisma and fancy charts: it requires concrete skillsthat are vital to keeping your audience engaged and involved. Thishandy guide contains key information on how to customize yourpresentations to keep people focused and produce the results youwant.
If you're ever favored enough to catch a few minutes of a corporate CEO's time, and feel bold enough to ask what their job entails, chances are you'll hear something lofty about developing strategy, empowering employees, seeing the big picture. But if you ask to see their calendar for the past month, you'll probably find they've spent very little, if any, time doing those things. The look-at-last-month's-calendar trick was devised by Donald Laurie, a Boston-based management consultant, to help top executives figure out how best to lead their companies. Laurie sees a leader as the person who climbs out on the balcony and sees the company from above, the one who sees how all the parts connect to make a smoothly running machine. At the same time, if the leader stays up on that balcony for too much of the day, he or she can't hear the grumbling below. And what's being grumbled about is often the information that could save the CEO's job. As an example of this, Laurie relates the story of Xerox Corp. when it
Both Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg came to Google as seasoned Silicon Valley business executives, but over the course of a decade they came to see the wisdom in Coach John Wooden's observation that 'it's what you learn after you know it all that counts'. As they helped grow Google from a young start-up to a global icon, they relearned everything they knew about management. How Google Works is the sum of those experiences distilled into a fun, easy-to-read primer on corporate culture, strategy, talent, decision-making, communication, innovation, and dealing with disruption. The authors explain how the confluence of three seismic changes - the internet, mobile, and cloud computing - has shifted the balance of power from companies to consumers. The companies that will thrive in this ever-changing landscape will be the ones that create superior products and attract a new breed of multifaceted employees whom the authors dub 'smart creatives'. The management maxims ('Consensus requires dissension'
When a manager establishes a friendly yet productive working atmosphere, the benefits to the whole organization are substantial. The Art of Managing People provides practical strategies, guidelines and techniques for * Developing the interpersonal skills necessary to improve relations with employees * Understanding the differences between people, and behaving accordingly * Assessing, and then improving, current working situations * Creating trust between managers and employees. Person-to-person skills are the key to developing an effective team of satisfied, energetic workers. Letting your workers express their own personalities and maximize their potentials will * Reduce stress within the work force, * Create a positive spirit throughout the company, and * Increase the organization's productivity and profitability.