Straight Talk for Monday Morning: Creating Values, Vision, and Vitality at Work - Softcover

Cox, Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471577537 ISBN 13: 9780471577539

Publisher: Wiley, 1993

Synopsis

If We're a Team, How Come I'm Not on It?

Written by one of the foremost thinkers in the field of management consultation that shows managers how they can adjust their daily behavior (the ``little things'' they do) to foster vigorous, decisive, efficient and productive teams. Focusing on how managers need to behave, it tells them how to make their teams work faster and smarter and, at the same time, be more dependable. Very accessible and easy to read, it is organized around 100 parables knit together with commentary. Among the major themes is the author's rejection of consensus building because of its slow, tedious and cumbersome way of accomplishing a given task. You'll find out how you, the executive, serve as the catalyst for action, how to take decisive action, what nitty-gritty steps are necessary, and how to exercise vision both for you and your team--as individuals and for the organization as a whole.

About this title

About the Author

Allan Cox is an author and advisor to CEOs and their top teams. Founder of Allan Cox & Associates, Inc., he has authored 11 books published by Amazon and others including Simon & Schuster, Doubleday, Amacom, St. Martn's Press and Wiley. The two most recent, respectively, are (1) "WHOA! Are They Glad You're in Their Lives?" and (2) "Change the Way You Face the Day," the first in a series of poetry-threaded reflections and questions designed for for personal perspective and book discussion in groups of small size. Others include the best sellers "Confessions of a Corporate Headhunter" (the first book ever written about the executive search profession), "Inside Corporate America," "The Making of the Achiever," and "Straight Talk for Monday Morning." Cox has advised CEOs and top management teams of many corporations and not-for-profit organizations, including USG, Walgreens, Quidel, Motorola, Consolidated Communications, Columbus McKinnon, Kraft, Pillsbury, the Minnesota Vikings, Child Welfare League of America, and The Christian Century Magazine. For nine years he was a member of The Visiting Committee of The University of Chicago Divinity School. He also served for five years as Chairman of the Board of Chicago's Center for Ethics and Corporate Policy. He and his wife (Cher) work and live in Chicago.

Cox's new book, "When the Sun Shines Through," was released in October, 2014.

From the Back Cover

With penetrating, action-oriented, real life insights, Allan Cox tells us more about harnessing the power of an organization than most manager will learn in a lifetime.

Robert H. Beeby, President & CEO

Frito-Lay, Inc.

What a rarity in this confusing world. Here is a powerful book, filled with business wisdom and strategies that anyone cn apply for greater success . . . so well written that it is a joy to read.

Og Mandino

From the Inside Flap

Cox makes being an effective member or leader of a team an intensely personal business. He clarifies that such effectiveness on the team is much more a matter of what you do than what others do.. Here is a book that skillfully charts the larger significance of the team while showing sensitivity to the detail of high-performance teamwork--sensitivity that is provocative and stimulating.

Roger W. Heyns

President

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Former Chancellor

University of California at Berleley

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471577537
• ISBN 13: 9780471577539
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376