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Learning How to Realize Potential: How Great Leaders Tap into the Innately Human Need to Achieve
Menkes, JustinBook Chapter HBS-8544BC-EGreat leaders demand the best of themselves in their dual quest to realize their own potential and steer their organizations to enduring success. But the constant change and uncertainty that define enterprise today require them to go a step further to achieve their goals: they must create a context in which the people they lead also strive to realize their own inner potential. The ability to realize potential--both your own and that of others--re...Starting at €8.20
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Finding Order in Chaos: Maintaining Clarity of Thought--How Great Leaders Remain Focused Under Pressure
Menkes, JustinBook Chapter HBS-8553BC-EAs the world becomes more confusing, it seems like it's getting harder to think clearly. In this chapter, psychologist and executive evaluator Justin Menkes examines what clarity of thought looks like in practice, showing how stress can negatively affect your intelligence. To become a great leader, you need to harness stress as a motivator for intensifying your focus. Menkes shows you how, with a diagnostic exercise for evaluating your ability to...Starting at €8.20
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Finding Order in Chaos: The Drive to Solve the Puzzle--How Great Leaders Remain Intellectually Confident Under Pressure
Menkes, JustinBook Chapter HBS-8554BC-EAs a leader, you must constantly make decisions involving serious consequences based on shifting, incomplete data. Great leaders, however, see these puzzles as stimulating rather than frustrating; the drive to solve the puzzle compels them to move beyond the mere ability to think intelligently in a stressful situation. In this chapter, author Justin Menkes describes how to develop your own drive to find a solution, with examples from master CEOs ...Starting at €8.20
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Realistic Optimism: A Sense of Agency--How Great Leaders' Belief in Their Ability to Determine Outcomes Empowers Entire Organizations
Menkes, JustinBook Chapter HBS-8546BC-EOne of the qualities that sets great leaders apart is their belief that their own actions make a difference--that they can influence outcomes. In this chapter, psychologist and executive assessment expert Justin Menkes explores this sense of agency and why it can be such a game changer for aspiring leaders. Using powerful testimonials from master CEOs--Chevron's Dave O'Reilly, Continental Airlines' Gordon Bethune, Kraft Food's Irene Rosenfeld, an...Starting at €8.20
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Setting the Virtuous Flywheel in Motion: Understanding the Critical Role of Great Leaders in Realizing the Potential of Their People
Menkes, JustinBook Chapter HBS-8555BC-EYour identity as an executive-level leader is dependent on the environment you create within your organization: you can't separate out your success or failure from the people you lead or the culture you've engendered. In this chapter, Justin Menkes, a noted expert in executive assessment, profiles a maestro CEO--Dave Dillon, head of supermarket giant Kroger--showing how Dillon's organization exemplifies the ongoing interactive system great leader...Starting at €8.20
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Subservience to Purpose: Affect Tolerance--How Great Leaders Channel Intense Emotions into Actions That Ensure Progress
Menkes, JustinBook Chapter HBS-8552BC-EGreat leaders, like all human beings, experience a full range of emotional reactions every day. They are not immune to anger, frustration, anxiety, or fear, and this fact is intensified by today's fast-paced environment. But leaders who are subservient to a purpose channel their emotions; they see challenges as stimulating and are able to react to setbacks and unforeseen events in ways that ensure rather than stifle progress. In this chapter, exe...Starting at €8.20
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Great Leadership in a World of Ongoing Duress: The Three Must-Have Capabilities of Twenty-First-Century CEOs
Menkes, JustinBook Chapter HBS-8543BC-EWhat qualities make great leaders able to navigate the turbulent and ever-changing business environment that is the new normal, performing at their best and also bringing out the best in those they lead? Justin Menkes, a psychologist and executive assessment expert who works with the world's top CEOs, has made an in-depth study of the differences between leaders who fail and those who have shown remarkable success and staying power. In this chapt...Starting at €8.20
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Realistic Optimism: An Awareness of Actual Circumstances--How Great Leaders Balance Known and Unknown Challenges to Determine a Course of Action
Menkes, JustinBook Chapter HBS-8545BC-EMany leaders under duress try to downplay the risks involved in the circumstances they are confronting. They ignore critical facts or focus on solvable problems instead of the larger, more ambiguous challenges they face. But to be a great leader in today's economy, you must recognize that the world of enterprise faces colossal ambiguity--and you must strike a balance between the known and the unknown. In this chapter, psychologist and executive a...Starting at €8.20
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Subservience to Purpose: Affiliations Based on Shared Dedication--How Great Leaders Form Work Relationships That Generate Peak Performance
Menkes, JustinBook Chapter HBS-8547BC-EAlthough realistic optimism is the catalyst that allows great leaders to see and address deficiencies in themselves and the world around them--and thus grow and realize their potential and the potential of others--subservience to purpose gives them the drive to do so. Leaders who demonstrate subservience to purpose put a particular pursuit--such as their company's mission--ahead of their own comfort. But great leaders aren't slavishly devoted to ...Starting at €8.20