books by Michael Useem     books:       Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win12 reviews Michael Useem Three Rivers Press, 2003 The "ups" and "downs" of effective leadership I read this book soon after it first appeared (in 2001) and recently re-read it, curious to know how well its core concepts and insights have held up. My conclusion? Very, very well. At the outset, for those who have not as yet read Michael Useem's brilliant book, it would be helpful to understand what he means by "leading up." As he explains, "Leadership has always required more than a downward ...             Investor Capitalism : How Money Managers Are Changing the Face of Corporate America3 reviews Michael Useem Basic Books, 1999 An instant classic in the field of corporate governance. Managerial capitalism ascended during the century's middle decades. "The decisions they made often affected the lives of thousands of people, yet they were seemingly accountable to no one." The large holdings of institutional investors and the growth of indexing as a major investment strategy have prevented the ready selling of underperforming companies; investors are now more likely to "speak ...             The Leadership Moment Michael Useem Random House Inc, 1999             The Inner Circle: Large Corporations and the Rise of Business Political Activity in the U.S. and U.K.1 review Michael Useem Oxford University Press, USA, 1986 Businessmen Unite! In the US and Great-Britain top officers of large corporations formed in the 1970s a semi-autonomous network which Michael Useem calls the 'Inner Circle'. It is a sort of institutionalized capitalism with a classwide alongside a corporate logic and permits a centralized mobilization of corporate resources. This select group of business leaders assume a leading role in the support of political ...             The Go Point: When It's Time to Decide--Knowing What to Do and When to Do It8 reviews Michael Useem Crown Business, 2006 A Leaders Manual to Making Better Decisions I finally had the chance to sit down with Michael Useem's newest book, The Go Point. I am really interested in his work and enjoyed several of his earlier books including Upward Bound: Nine Original Accounts of How Business Leaders Reached Their Summits (with Paul Asel), Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win and The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and ...             The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All17 reviews Michael Useem Three Rivers Press, 1999 Great leadership stories! As part of an assignment for a Leadership/Small Group Communication course, I was directed to select the book of my choice from an Amazon book search under the topic of leadership. After poring through the descriptions of just a few of the 116,000 books in this category, I quickly identified the type of book I was looking for. I wanted something less academic/theoretical and more real life. I ...             Executive Defense: Shareholder Power and Corporate Reorganization Michael Useem Harvard University Press, 1993 A quiet revolution came to corporate America during the late 1980s and early 1990S. Large shareholders - pension funds, insurance companies, money managers, and commercial banks - exercised new-found muscle, pressuring senior managers to meet heightened financial expectations by reshaping their organizations. Michael Useem attempts to reveal how those shareholder pressures have transformed the inside structures of many corporations. Useem draws ...             The war for talent; The trend is unmistakable: executives are opting for the world of private business.(GUEST ... Dennis Carey, Michael Useem Directors and Boards, 2004 This digital document is an article from Directors & Boards, published by Directors and Boards on June 22, 2004. The length of the article is 812 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: The war for talent; The trend is ...             Transforming Organizations Oxford University Press, USA, 1992 This book examines how organizations can, and should, transform their practices to compete in a world economy. Research results from a multi-disciplinary team of MIT researchers, along with the experiences and insights of a select group of industry practitioners, are integrated into a model that stresses the need for systemic and transformative rather than piecemeal or incremental changes in organization practices and public policy. This ...             Liberal Education and the Corporation: The Hiring and Advancement of College Graduates Michael Useem Aldine Transaction, 1989 Liberal Education and the Corporation analyzes the interrelation of higher education and corporate management at a time when educational and industrial institutions are reassessing their basic strategies. Drawing upon research supported by the Corporate Council on the Liberal Arts, in affiliation with the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, it focuses on the corporate career paths of college graduates and on the comparative ...             Corporate alignment in an era of shareholder power. (ownership challenges by companies' shareholders) (Wisdom ... Michael Useem Chief Executive Publishing, 1992 This digital document is an article from Chief Executive (U.S.), published by Chief Executive Publishing on July 1, 1992. The length of the article is 2124 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. From the supplier: Shareholders are posing greater challenges ...             How Well Run Boards Make Decisions (Harvard Business Review) Michael Useem audible.com             Upward Bound: Nine Original Accounts of How Business Leaders Reached Their Summits1 review Michael Useem, Jerry Useem, ... Crown Business, 2003 A leadership trek well worth taking What is it about mountains that draw out the leadership metaphor? Is it their majestic height, their commanding views, or simply the lure of rising by one's own power into the clouds?The authors of "Upward Bound" believe that mountain climbing combines the challenge of reaching as high as one can with opportunity to work collectively with other like-minded individuals. Therein, lies one of the ...             Turbulence in the American Workplace Peter B. Doeringer, Kathleen Christensen, ... Oxford University Press, USA, 1991 Turbulence--rapid and sometimes tumultuous changes--has characterized the labor markets of the 1970's and 1980's. Turbulent competitive conditions have cut sharply into profits and have forced downsizings and radical readjustments in America's workplaces. Workplace turbulence has resulted in lost jobs, declining incomes, and falling productivity for American labor. From the perspectives of business and labor, turbulence and its consequences is ...              search for books accounts, advancement, alignment, american, capitalism, challenges, companies, corporate, corporation, corporations, decisions, directors, disaster, education, executive, executives, graduates, investor, leadership, organizations, original, ownership, political, reorganization, shareholder, shareholders, transforming, turbulence, unmistakable, workplace books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen music: Essentially Christmas we recommend A Leaders Manual to Making Better Decisions leave a comment home  impressum - about us