The Achiever's Profile: 100 Questions and Answers to Sharpen Your Executive Instincts - Hardcover

Allan Cox

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814457967 ISBN 13: 9780814457962

Publisher: AMACOM, 1988

Synopsis

CLOSE-CROPPED ANSWERS TO WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE YOUR MAIN MARK

Allan Cox describes an achiever as an individual who is marked by a commitment to team, risk, balance, and results. In this provocative and entertaining collection of short essays, 100 questions, and 200 action steps, you will learn whether you've got what it takes to fit the achiever's profile. And, this intelligent and readable book will help you identify the crucial skills you need to move up the corporate ladder.
 

About this title

About the Author

Allan Cox (allancox.com) is an author and advisor to CEOs and their top teams. He is founder of Allan Cox & Associates, Inc., and has authored 10 books published by Amazon and others including Simon & Schuster, Doubleday, Amacom, St. Martin's Press and Wiley. The two most recent are: (1) Change the Way You Face the Day, the first in a series of poetry-threaded reflections and questions designed for personal perspective and book discussion in groups of small size. (2) The second is When the Sun Shines Through. 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. 

From the Back Cover

The Achiever's Profile is marvelous. Read these 100 fast-takes straight through or by subject, either way provides you with a wealth of important skill information. Amazingly, Cox presents all this in an entertaining way.
Ron Compton
Executive Vice President
Aetna Life and Casualty Company

This highly practical book makes Allan Cox your personal coach. He points out small and not-so-small ways you can hurt your performance and play up to your potential. Herein is a wealth of astute insights and illuminating stories.
Robert E. Kaplan
Director, Executive Leadership
Center for Creative Leadership

This book underscores the fact that Allan Cox is one of the most original, practical and energetic of today's management gurus. All managers--in fact, all people who work in organizations--ignore Cox's advice at their peril.
James O'Toole
Author, Vanguard Management
Professor of Management
University of Southern California

From the Inside Flap

Cox delivers again! Many people write about desired results or goals, but in "The Achiever's Profile" Cox helps you focus on how to realize your results and be an achiever of your goals. Very stimulating.

Robert L. Witt

CEO, Hexcel Corporation

Edition details

• Publisher: AMACOM
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814457967
• ISBN 13: 9780814457962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 324