Authors: Kevin Kelly.
Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: FT Press
Publication Date: 2009-02-12
Edition: 1

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What It Really Takes to Get to the Top, Stay There, and Thrive

 

• Inside the life of the top-level leader: a candid view from the CEO of one of the world’s top executive search firms
• What top executives do, how they do it, and how great leaders keep improving
• Covers all the toughest issues--from driving change to balancing work and personal life

 

At the very top, everything is different: the lifestyle, the decisions, the relentless, nonstop pressure. What’s it really like up there? There’s only one way to know: ask another top-level leader. In Top Jobs, the CEO of one of the world’s top executive search firms shares the no-holds-barred lessons he’s learned in his own career and the most powerful insights learned from hundreds of leaders he’s worked with. Discover how to grab the reins and start delivering from day one...how to cope with brutally tough stakeholders...how to continually improve at everything from strategy to top-level team-building...how to keep your personal life from imploding while you’re working 24/7!

 

In Top Jobs, Kevin Kelly takes you inside the life of the top-level leader and shows you exactly what it takes to thrive at the top.

 

Never before has the reality of top-level leadership been brought home with this much clarity, candor, and passion. Kelly writes from personal experience as CEO of one of the world’s top executive search firms, Heidrick & Struggles. He doesn’t just lead his own company: He works personally with hundreds of fellow leaders and board-level leaders.

 

Kelly discusses what to do in your first 100 days...how to lead in a global environment...how to preserve your family life when you’re working and traveling nonstop...even how to prepare for life beyond the corner office.

 

This is the one book you’ll need to succeed in your top job--whether you’re already in it or not!

 

• Finding your own path to the top
  What it will take for you, personally, to get there
• Your first 100 days leading the organization
  Crucial first decisions and first impressions
• The nuts and bolts of top-level leadership
  Winning at strategy, execution, communication, and global leadership
• Me, myself, and I
  Staying sane and balanced in your 24/7 job

 

 

Introduction      xv

Chapter 1 Why Top Jobs Matter    1

Chapter 2 Getting There    17

Chapter 3 My First 100 Days    35

Chapter 4 The Job: Leadership, Strategy, and Execution    63

Chapter 5 The Job: Communication and People    85

Chapter 6 The Rise and Rise of the Global Leader    109

Chapter 7 Me, Myself, and I    127

Chapter 8 Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs    153

Chapter 9 Tomorrow’s Leaders    165

Chapter 10 The Life Beyond    175

 

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Authors: Craig Hall.
Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Career Press
Publication Date: 2001-09


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    Just Published
In Craig Hall’s latest book, Timing the Real Estate Market, How to Buy Low and Sell High, Hall reveals to America’s 17 million real estate investors his secrets for maximizing profits by knowing when to buy, when to sell, and what to do in between. Following his advice, readers will learn how to:

- Recognize sector-specific real estate cycles in local markets.
- Understand the seven major trends affecting real estate prices.
- Predict when real estate prices are poised to increase.
- Capture maximum profits by knowing when to sell.
- Add value to a property while waiting for the market to pick up.
- Survive during a downturn until the next market upswing....

Authors: Jerry B. Harvey.
Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Publication Date: 1999-08-03
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    The role we each play in our own downfalls create the profound--and profoundly entertaining--basis for this series of linked "meditations" as the author of The Abilene Paradox takes another irreverent look at the nature of life on the job. In this work, Harvey explores the ethical, moral, and spiritual dilemmas we all face in the modern world of work. But he does it in a most unconventional way. His is an approach that mixes equal parts humor, philosophy, and insight to make us laugh, think, and examine organizational behavior in a brand new light. The twelve essays themselves carry such spirited titles as "What If I Really Believe this Stuff," "On Tooting Your Own Horn," and "Ode to Waco." Altogether, it's an enthralling collection of wise and witty parables that illustrate the redemptive value of the truth in a voice that is ultimately understanding of human shortcomings....

Authors: Kevin O'Connor. Paul B. Brown.
Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
Publication Date: 2003-08-12
Edition: 1st

Reviews :

    How did Kevin O’Connor help create DoubleClick, the innovative marketing technology company...two software companies...dozens of products...and now the “disappearing” DVD, a product that will turn the home video market on its head?

Sheer brilliance? While O’Connor is very smart indeed, he credits his success to applying Thomas Edison’s famous saying that “genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” In other words, the breakthrough product or service that is the result of sheer genius alone is the exception.

Great ideas that form the basis of new companies or that can make a hero of someone toiling in the corporate world are within reach of us all.

“But wait,” says O’Connor, “ideas are cheap.” Just as important is doing something with them—a process that will turn the best ideas into something that people need. In other words, O’Connor argues convincingly, innovation can be systematically forced.

The Map of Innovation is O’Connor’s step-by-step approach to devising lucrative new products and services and bringing them to market, through a process that has proven itself time and again in many different industries. Too often, people trying to innovate focus on things that don’t matter or waste their time trying to find answers to questions that can’t be answered. O’Connor shows why the map of innovation centers on getting right the five make-or-break fundamentals: creating a large number of viable ideas; picking the right idea to pursue; creating a highly focused strategy to bring the idea to market; getting the money to fund the strategy; and hiring the best people. With Kevin O’Connor, the proof of the value of methodical innovation is in the pudding. He helped start companies that have employed thousands of people and created billions in shareholder value.

Anyone can get lucky once, but for success to strike three times and to include many successful products, there has to be a method and map, and any company, big or small, working on any product or service can benefit from O’Connor’s time-tested tactics....

Authors: J. Donald Walters.
Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Crystal Clarity Publishers
Publication Date: 2000-10-01
Edition: 2nd

Reviews :

    This book has the power to change your life. It contains techniques and keys for attracting to yourself the power and success that everyone seeks in life. It offers fresh, new insights on proven ways of increasing your own money magnetism. It is a book about money, but also about a great deal more. It's larger purpose is to help you attract whatever you need in life, when you need it....

Authors: Arnold M. Patent.
Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Beyond Words Publishing
Publication Date: 1997-02
Edition: 2nd

Reviews :

    The author of the best-selling You Can Have It All goes beyond financial success to apply the principles of spiritual fulfillment to help readers discover the true abundance and joy in all facets of their lives. IP. ...

Authors: Napoleon Hill. Prentice Mulford. Wallace, D. Wattles.
Paperback, 92 pages
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Publication Date: 2007-10-19


Reviews :

    Here are the writers that inspired the likes of Jerry and Esther Hicks, Michael J. Losier, and Rhonda Byrne. Long before The Secret and The Law of Attraction were written these fifteen authors were writing about the Law of Attraction and the power of positive thinking. Their words ring as true today as when they were first written. These are the giants of the New Thought movement upon whose shoulders the current crop of self help writers stand. With this book you will get fifteen masterful perspectives on The Law of Attraction and the power of positive thinking to manifest the things that you want in your life. Included here are Genevieve Behrend, Elizabeth Towne, Prentice Mulford, William Walker Atkinson, Earnest Holmes, Wallace D. Wattles, James Allen, Ralph Waldo Trine, Orison Swett Marden, Thomas Troward, Joseph Murphy, Charles F. Haanel, Robert Collier, Theron Q. Dumont, and Napoleon Hill....

Authors: Alex Hiam.
Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Entrepreneur Press
Publication Date: 2002-06-15
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    Top business author and executive trainer Alexander Hiam shares insights, motivational advice and tips from his leadership programs, plus hundreds of examples from successful leaders and organizations worldwide....

Authors: Joanne Gordon.
Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Publication Date: 2005-03-29


Reviews :

    Meet Leslie, a gallery owner in New York City; Donna, a pharmaceutical sales manager in Texas; Lynne, an animal trainer in Utah; and Betsy, a CEO in California. These women and ninety-six others are members of The Happy 100, a diverse group of women who love their jobs unequivocally. While many workers across America feel bored, unrecognized, and unchallenged, these women greet each new workday with pleasure and a sense of anticipation.

What’s their secret? There are concrete connections between each woman’s job and her unique combination of skills, character, and personality, and Be Happy at Work highlights them through candid snapshots of their working lives and career journeys. Author Joanne Gordon has identified three universal themes and ten categories of happy working women, demonstrating the core reasons of their fulfillment. There are The Lovers, women whose work champions a personal passion; The Thinkers, who thrive on intellectual challenge; The Surviving Artists, who make a sustainable living from a creative endeavor; The Determinators, who feed a need for control and influence; The Heroines, who work to change the world; and The Builders, who enjoy building a company, a team, or a product from the ground up.

Each of Gordon’s interviewees fits into one of these groups–everyone from actress Stockard Channing, broadcast journalist Lesley Stahl, and songwriter Diane Warren to everyday women who work as a screwdriver manufacturer, a truck driver, and a hospital clown. Gordon tells each their stories and reveals why each woman is happy with her choice–and how readers can achieve the same happiness in their own working lives.

Here are the inspiring stories of a chef at the South Pole, a scientist, a judge, a forest ranger, an investment banker, and a Manhattan doorperson, among others. The Happy 100 are all real women whose career stories will help you find yourself in their company. Be Happy at Work proves that loving one’s job is not a luxury for the lucky–it’s a real, attainable possibility for every woman, everywhere....

Authors: Joshua David Stone.
Paperback, 236 pages
Publisher: Ligh Technology Publishing
Publication Date: 2005-07


Reviews :

    Dr. Stone's guiding principle on business and prosperity consciousness is this: If you desire abundance for yourself, dedicate your life to helping others find abundance as well. As one of the most successful businessmen of the New Age movement, Dr. Stone has written an easily digestible book full of tools and advice for achieving prosperity. This book conveys esoteric secrets of the universe that, if mastered, can lead to maximum manifestation results. Based on personal experience and the deep spiritual, psychological and earthly insights from Dr. Stone's extensive research and application of these principles, this book is like no other in the financial field because it is a holistic approach for life study rather than just another book about money--it will change not only your finances, but your life....