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"Today's leaders are faced with more complex and critical challenges than ever before. Inspirational charisma, financial acumen, and strategic thinking are all prerequisites for the job but are not enough to build-or, more important, sustain-vibrant and successful organizations. In The Real Work of Leaders, Don Laurie digs beneath the surface to explore the "act of leadership," the essence of what leaders need to do on a daily basis to frame challenges,...

Publisher's description: Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected and dismissed or about their true power. This is the first book to take us into the often secretive world of the CEO selection process. Rakesh Khurana's findings...

Christian covers hiring and keeping the best employees, getting a good job and mastering both sides of an interview.

"What drives success in Asia? How did the pioneers do what they did, how are they planning their succession? After six seasons of Channel NewsAsia's Power List Asia, with 73 high-powered guests, over 26,000 manhours of pre- and post-production and 130,000 airmiles, comes Power Talk. Distilling the very best and most memorable conversations with various head honchos, Karen Lam sits down (not on television this time) to compile the best business ideas,...

Globalization has had varying effects on countries and economies throughout the world. NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman talks to Farooq Kathwari, CEO of Ethan Allen Interiors Inc., on the challenges of running a global organization. Origina?

"Dan Bavly takes a fresh look at how business is supervised and how that system can be improved." "Drawing on his years of company board and auditing experience, Bavly analyzes why the average director cannot do his job, and he shows how a complete, but feasible, overhaul of the way company boards function can help solve this problem. Bavly then goes on to explore, as an insider, the profession of accounting and to show why the CPA should be considered...

"In Corpocracy, longtime corporate lawyer, venture capitalist, and shareholder activist Robert Monks reveals how corporations seized control, how they abuse their power, and what we can - and must - do to rein them in. In this clear and careful analysis, Monks outlines a plan for reconciling the competing interests of corporations and society through thoughtful shareholder activism that protects the interests of corporations and everyone else. Shareholder...

A behind-the-scenes look at a group of businessmen who were largely responsible for the economic boom of the 1990s describes surprise deals, the rise and fall of the dot-com industry, and the figures who are still thriving.