Sydney Finkelstein: 11 books

Book cover of Superbosses

Superbosses

How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent

by Sydney Finkelstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016

"Superbosses is the rare business book that is chock full of new, useful, and often unexpected ideas. After you read Finkelstein's well-crafted gem, you will never go about leading, evaluating, and developing talent in quite the same way.”—Robert Sutton, author of Scaling Up Excellence and The...
Book cover of The Superbosses Playbook

The Superbosses Playbook

A Workbook Companion to Superbosses

by Sydney Finkelstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019

The companion workbook to Dartmouth professor Sydney Finkelstein's acclaimed Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent. Superbosses explained how industry legends like football coach Bill Walsh, television executive Lorne Michaels, restaurateur Alice Waters, and fashion...
Book cover of Why Smart Executives Fail

Why Smart Executives Fail

And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes

by Sydney Finkelstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2004

Bob Pittman and AOL Time Warner. Jean Marie Messier and Vivendi. Jill Barad and Mattel. Dennis Kozlowski and Tyco. It's an all too common scenario. A great company breaks from the pack; the analysts are in love; the smiling CEO appears on the cover of Fortune. Two years later, the company is...
Book cover of Breakout Strategy: Meeting the Challenge of Double-Digit Growth
by Sydney Finkelstein, Charles Harvey, Thomas Lawton
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006

Companies that purposefully set out to excel are remarkably few and far between. The number of those who have a strong, well-thought out strategy for success are even fewer. Based on five years of research and field-testing, Breakout Strategy gives you a “fast track” strategic vision...
Book cover of No More Bad Decisions
by Sydney Finkelstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014

Business success stories may be instructive, but we need to know more about why smart people make bad decisions. In this short-form book, Sydney Finkelstein, a professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business who has studied these crucial questions for almost twenty years, tells how decisions really...
Book cover of HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence (with featured article "What Makes a Leader?" by Daniel Goleman)(HBR's 10 Must Reads)
by Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015

In his defining work on emotional intelligence, bestselling author Daniel Goleman found that it is twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership. If you read nothing else on emotional intelligence, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We’ve combed...
Book cover of Think Again

Think Again

Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep it From Happeining to You

by Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead, Andrew Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009

Why do smart and experienced leaders make flawed, even catastrophic, decisions? Why do people keep believing they have made the right choice, even with the disastrous result staring them in the face? And how can you be sure you're making the right decision--without the benefit of hindsight? Sydney...
Book cover of 無法測量的領導藝術:跟超級老闆學帶人──他們不說、沒人會懂的非典型 × 跨世代人才培育力!
by 席尼・芬克斯坦(Sydney Finkelstein)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: July 18, 2017

「這本著作簡直是網絡時代的領導學指南。」 ──里德.霍夫曼 LinkedIn共同創辦人 請注意:由於本書過於顛覆革新,其中觀念可能惹怒某些老闆。   好老闆帶領團隊完成目標, 超級老闆則培育整個世代的領導人才,並改寫產業「成功」的定義。 在這個體制崩壞的年代,你想成為哪種主管,又想跟隨怎樣的老闆?   「好老闆」跟「頂尖老闆」差別在哪? 如何「一眼辨認」出你跟隨的,是有助你成長的超級老闆?   @超級老闆會與員工建立師徒般的關係 超級老闆會因材施教,以不同方式帶領不同員工,符合每個人的獨特需求。另外,超級老闆也樂於傳授自己的知識與經驗,絕不對員工藏私。廣告大師杰伊.恰特(Jay...
Book cover of Harvard Business Review Everyday Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business Review Everyday Emotional Intelligence

Big Ideas and Practical Advice on How to Be Human at Work

by Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017

Fundamental frameworks for emotional intelligence and how to apply them every day. According to research by Daniel Goleman, emotional intelligence has proved to be twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership. It is now one of the crucial criteria in hiring...
Book cover of Strategic Leadership

Strategic Leadership

Theory and Research on Executives, Top Management Teams, and Boards

by Bert Cannella, Sydney Finkelstein, Donald C. Hambrick
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008

This book integrates and assesses the vast and rapidly growing literature on strategic leadership, which is the study of top executives and their effects on organizations. The authors synthesize what is known about strategic leadership and indicate new research directions. The book is meant primarily...
Book cover of Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions
by Sir Cary L. Cooper, Sydney Finkelstein
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016

Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions stands out from the competition due to its focus on three key characteristics: studies from scholars in different countries, with different research questions, relying on different theoretical perspectives. Such a broad and inclusive approach to mergers and acquisitions...
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