Persuadable : how great leaders change their minds to change the world
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Persuadable : how great leaders change their minds to change the world
AUTHOR:
Pittampalli, Al.
ISBN:
9780062333896
EDITION:
First edition.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York, NY : Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, c2016.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
viii, 242 p. ; 24 cm
CONTENTS:
1. The Changing Face of Leadership -- Part I: The Persuadable Advantage -- 2. Get Smart: Accuracy, Agility, and Growth -- 3. The Truest Path to Self-Determination -- 4. In Defense of the Flip-Flop -- Part II: The Seven Practices Of Persuadable Leaders -- 5. Consider the Opposite -- 6. Update Your Beliefs -- 7. Kill Your Darlings -- 8. Take the Perspectives of Others -- 9. Avoid Being Too Persuadable -- 10. Convert Early -- 11. Take On Your Own Tribe.
ABSTRACT:
"In Persuadable, you'll learn how Ray Dalio became the most successful hedge fund manager in the world by strategically curbing confidence. How Alan Mullaly saved Ford Motor Company, not by staying the course, but by continually changing course. How one Nobel Prize-winning scientist discovered the cause of ulcers by bravely doubting his own entrenched beliefs. You'll learn how Billy Graham's change of heart helped propel the civil rights movement, and how a young NFL linebacker's radical new position may prove to alter the world of professional football as we know it."-- Amazon.com.
SUBJECT:
| Leadership. |
| Persuasion (Psychology) |
| Change (Psychology) |
BIBSUMMARY:
"In Persuadable, you'll learn how Ray Dalio became the most successful hedge fund manager in the world by strategically curbing confidence. How Alan Mullaly saved Ford Motor Company, not by staying the course, but by continually changing course. How one Nobel Prize-winning scientist discovered the cause of ulcers by bravely doubting his own entrenched beliefs. You'll learn how Billy Graham's change of heart helped propel the civil rights movement, and how a young NFL linebacker's radical new position may prove to alter the world of professional football as we know it."--