San Antonio College Library

A study of J. Edgar Hoover and how he influenced American politics, presidents, civil rights movements, etc. during his fifty years as director of FBI.

Specific examples of business successes and failures serve to illustrate the essential practices of effective administration. The measure of the executive, Peter Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that...

In a perfect corporate world, intellect, hard work, and professionalism would be recognized and rewarded regardless of skin color. Executive recruiter Roldan is here to tell you that nobody works in such a world. Stellar performance alone will not determine corporate advancement--minorities need to learn and follow the rules of corporate politics. Roldan gives a dose of tough love to minorities in corporate America while educating their majority counterparts....

"Profiles minority executives at three different firms who encountered and conquered barriers throughout their careers. It then contrasts their successes at the same companies with the experiences of white executives who reached upper management, and with white and minority middle managers coming to grips with stalled careers"--Jacket.

A leading expert on women and men at work and a highly sought-after speaker, Rosener argues that not only are men and women different, so are male and female managers. Drawing on in-depth interviews with top-flight executives and middle managers and the latest research on working women and organizational change, she describes the unique contribution of female professionals. Her profiles of top women managers reveal that they cope well with ambiguity,...

Here is a who's who of Business, Thirty-One Profiles of Inventors, Financiers, Organizers, Motivators, and gurus - a vivid, informative look at the history of management as seen through the lives of its most influential figures.

"Meet the man whose work influenced some of the world's most prominent business leaders and spawned a worldwide movement that is still gaining strength today. Robert Greenleaf's landmark 1970 essay, The Servant as Leader, introduced the now common term "servant leadership" to the world. His work has been cited by leading writers and business people including Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Peter Senge, Margaret Wheatley, and Peter Block, and led to...

A self-portrait of the executive who rescued the Chrysler Corporation from bankruptcy.