Top Dog: A Different Kind of Book About Becoming an Excellent Leader - Softcover

J. David Pincus; J. Nicholas De Bonis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070501882 ISBN 13: 9780070501881

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1996

Synopsis

In fascinating first-hand interviews with top CEOs, after almost a decade of research, and through a riveting business-fiction account of Arlen Royster, a CEO faced with a career-threatening crisis, Top Dog chronicles the role of the corporate CEO as leader, facilitator, and communicator.

About this title

About the Author:

J. David Pincus, Ph.D., APR, is professor of communications at California State University, Fullerton.

From Booklist:

With CEOs now being kicked out of their corner offices at an unprecedented rate, it's time, say Pincus and DeBonis, to rethink the role and responsibilities of the corporate leader, not the least of which is the way top dogs communicate to all their key stakeholders--most of all, employees. On the basis of 10 years of research, the authors link communications and leadership in a definitive way, showing through data and case histories how consistency, compassion, organization, and selectivity (their CCOS model) form the linchpins of true communications. As another illustration, they spin a fictional tale of Arlen Royster, CEO of a national hotel chain, who's faced with both cooked books and an internal mutiny. Endnotes and fairly impressive CEO interviews underscore their major theme: that U.S. business leaders must learn the hows, whens, wheres, and whys of communicating to succeed both now and in the next century. A book that not only needs to be written but also to be read widely. Barbara Jacobs

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0070501882
• ISBN 13: 9780070501881
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384