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

Cox, Allan

 
9780814477564: The Achiever's Profile: 100 Questions and Answers to Sharpen Your Executive Instincts

Synopsis

CLOSE-CROPPED ANSWERS TO WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE YOUR MAIN MARK
Provides a guide for executives tosharpen managerial skills through a series of incisive questions and essaysdesigned to gage perceptions and skills utlized in day-to-day businessscenarios. (see allancox.com)
 
"Underscores that Allan Cox is one of the mostoriginal, practical and energetic of today's management gurus." 

NewManagement Magazine, USC Business School

"Pithy, relevant, pragmatic . . . full of goodadvice on a wide variety of topics." 
B. Kenneth West, CEO, HarrisBankcorp, Inc.

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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

This quick read re-examines skills and asks, "Can I do this better?" Then it answers: "Yes!" It tells you how with action plans chock full of sound advice."

Peter S. Willmott
CEO, Carson Pirie Scott & Company
Allan Cox reminds us of the virtues and values that count more than ever in today's uncertain job world. Pay attention to his valuable message in The Achiever's Profile and make your career. Ignore it and break it.
Paul Hirsch
Author, Pack Your Parachute
Professor, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

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

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