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Leadership Therapy

Inside the Mind of Microsoft

Author: Anna Rowley, Ph.D.; Consulting Psychologist to Microsoft for Over a Decade

Leadership Therapy

Leadership Therapy

About This Book

Microsoft's corporate psychologist offers practical therapy for managers

Page Count
256
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On Sale
12/26/2007

Book Details

Microsoft is well-known for being an intense place to work: employees face constant pressure to innovate and excel and are passionately devoted to their jobs. In this insightful book, Anna Rowley reveals the major problems all managers face and shows how to conquer them. She distills the characteristics every leader must have to succeed in a demanding environment, including belief, confidence, self-awareness, trust, power, and ambition. She provides the tools that have helped her clients to continue to attain their potential, while including fascinating case studies of the driven and talented clients she has worked with at Microsoft.

Topics covered in Leadership Therapy include:
* Communicating well, even with difficult colleagues
* Negotiating power
* Bridging the gap between the real you and you, the leader
* Managing change effectively
* Establishing trust among coworkers
* How much honesty is too much?
* Articulating your beliefs so your colleagues know what you stand for
* Identifying the obstacles in the path of your career

Imprint Publisher

St. Martin's Press

ISBN

9780230608603

In The News

“Leadership development is self-development, and the mastery of the art of leadership comes from mastery of the self. Leadership Therapy is a perfect book to consult on your journey to mastery. Anna Rowley brings to this work an impressive background of rigorous research in human performance combined with the applied experience of an executive coach to one of the world's most extraordinary companies. I encourage you to take advantage of this unique practical and uplifting resource in discovering who you are as a leader.” —Jim Kouzes, bestselling author of The Leadership Challenge and A Leader's Legacy

“I believe strongly that psychology plays an enormous role in business in addition to all other human affairs. Anna Rowley's Leadership Therapy is a strong, clear, and helpful guide on how it can be used in business.” —Michael Levine, bestselling author of Broken Windows, Broken Business: How the Smallest Remedies Reap the Biggest Rewards

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