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Leadership Therapy: Inside the Mind of Microsoft

by Anna Rowley

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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 how to: * Communicate well, even with difficult colleagues* Negotiate power* Bridgethe gap between the real you and you, the leader* Manage change effectively* Establish trust among coworkers* Much more

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Microsoft's corporate psychologist offers practical therapy for managers

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In this insightful book, Microsoft consulting psychologist Anna Rowley draws on fascinating case studies from her twelve years of working with the top levels of Microsoft management, revealing the skills that have helped the company's top executives to maintain market dominance. Rowley's tools have helped her powerhouse clients, who are passionately devoted to their jobs, attain their maximum potential while faced with constant pressure to innovate and excel. In Leadership Therapy, she explains how leaders can develop the characteristics they need to succeed in a demanding environment, including belief, objectivity, insight, connectivity, and ambition.

About the Author

Anna Rowley, Ph.D., is a globally recognized expert in the field of resilience research and performance. Since 1996 she has consulted exclusively to Microsoft around the world. She is the founder of Rowley Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in psychological techniques that help managers to develop leadership skills.

Table of Contents

From Couch to Corporate: The Origins of Short-Term Corporate Therapy * Beliefs: Know Them, Speak Them, Live Them * Confidence: Why We Lose It, and How to Get It Back * Self-Awareness and Your Behavioral Signature * Trust: The Glue That Binds Us * Power and Ambition: Do You Want to be Feared or Loved? * Be Your Own Therapist * Appendix: The Leadership Circumplex

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ISBN:
9780230611313
Author:
Rowley, Anna
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan
Subject:
Counseling
Subject:
Leadership
Subject:
Psychotherapy -- Counseling.
Subject:
Business Writing
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Trade Paperback
Publication Date:
20081231
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TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
8.89 x 5.87 x 0.68 in

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