Executive Learning Forum

Book Reviews / Must Reads

Why CEOs Fail
The 11 Behaviors that can Derail Your Climb To The Top by David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo

Good To Great, Jim Collins

Change Your Questions Change Your Life
7 Powerful tools for life and work by Marilee G. Adams, Ph.D.

The Likeability Factor, Tim Sanders

Rites of Passage, John Lucht

The Number, Lee Eisenberg

The Art of Happiness, The Dalai Lama

Blink, Malcolm Gladwell

The Highest Goal, Michael Ray, Tim Collins

One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kiazan Way, Robert Maurer

The First 90 Days, Michael Watkins

Top Ten Threats to an Executive’s Tenure in Their Current Role

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You are miserable in your current job. Current company is being acquired by a competitor. Current company is being acquired by a conglomerate company. New CEO or new boss. Current company is being acquired by a Private Equity Firm. You are recommending a strategic acquisition. (hint…80% of acquisitions never meet original financial objectives) You receive a less than stellar 360 degree feedback report from your direct reports. The share price of your company’s stock is at a low-point for the past 12 months. At the same time you and your colleagues begin hearing about the need for transformational leaders. You wear your ambition on your sleeve so every one knows how badly you want to be promoted. You think being right is much more important than being liked. (hint . . . both are equally important).