Michael Useem: 13 books

“We can all become strategic leaders if we stay on the right path.” -Harbir Singh & Michael Useem Even a strong leader can flounder without an effective strategy, and the most powerful strategy can fail without the right leader. Only those who master and integrate both skills can effectively...

Named to The Washington Post’s 2011 List of Best Leadership Books In this fast-reading and illuminating expanded edition of the bestselling Leader’s Checklist, world-renowned leadership expert Michael Useem deepens his examination of 15 mission-critical principles for leaders Based...

The Go Point—the moment of truth when you have to say “yes” or “no” when it’s time to get off the fence. Michael Useem—through dramatic storytelling—shows how to master the art and science of being decisive. He places you smack in the middle of people facing their go point,...

Eight true stories show that Leaders today aren’t just bosses, they’re self-starters who take charge even when they haven’t been given a charge. Upward leaders get results by helping their superiors lead. They make sure that good ideas don’t die on the vine because a boss’s understanding...

On February 27, 2010, Chile was rocked by a violent earthquake five hundred times more powerful than the one that hit Haiti just six weeks prior. The Chilean earthquake devastated schools, hospitals, roads, and homes, paralyzing the country for weeks and causing economic damage that was equal to 18...

***800-CEO-READ BESTSELLER Featured in* Fortune, Harvard Business Review, and Entrepreneur, Go Long is “mandatory reading for the CEOs and boards of all public companies,” according to David M. Rubenstein, co-founder and co-executive chairman of The Carlyle Group.** The lifespans...

Events ranging from Hurricane Katrina to the global economic crisis have taught businesspeople an unforgettable lesson: if you don’t plan for “extreme risk,” you endanger your organization’s very survival. But how can you plan for events that go far beyond anything that occurs in normal day-to-day...

A profound and insightful look at how company leaders prepare for and respond to shocks and crises that threaten their business. Successful firms strategically manage and are more accurate in their assessment of large-scale risks. Doing so is increasingly challenging given the pace of change, whether...

Your team has faltered at a critical moment. A key member says he can’t continue, requiring you to make a snap decision: Do you write him off? Or do you risk the whole venture by trying to get him back on his feet? It could be a scenario straight from the business world. Yet this one...

Fortune Makers analyzes and brings to light the distinctive practices of business leaders who are the future of the Chinese economy. These leaders oversee not the old state-owned enterprises, but private companies that have had to invent their way forward out of the wreckage of an economy in tatters...

中國崛起是近代史上最非凡的發展，這個國家曾經強力譴責資本家與西方價值、致力於剷除任何現代化的事物，爭奪人均國內生產毛額全球排名墊底。在短短25年間，採行資本主義，成功使6億人脫貧，一躍成為坐二望一的全球強大經濟體。 這種發展並非拋棄共產主義經濟信條的必然結果，思考前蘇聯的經驗便可得知。本書作者群為三位華頓商學院教授與一位中歐國際工商學院中國籍教授，透過多重管道近身採訪72位具有全球影響力的中國企業領導人，包括大家耳熟能詳的中國四大集團：阿里巴巴、吉利汽車、聯想、萬科。 本書作者群將這些中國企業領導人，稱為「財富自造者」（Fortune...

Exploding growth. Soaring investment. Incoming talent waves. India's top companies are scoring remarkable successes on these fronts - and more. How? Instead of adopting management practices that dominate Western businesses, they're applying fresh practices of their ownin strategy, leadership,...

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