Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths
by Timothy Butler
(HBS Press)
Acknowledging that people may feel stuck or psychologically paralyzed at times in their lives, Butler, director of Career Development Programs, offers strategies for moving beyond a career or personal-life impasse: recognize the problem, awaken your imagination, find patterns of meaning in your life, and take action for change. Drawing on stories of individuals, he provides a practical road map for moving past one’s immediate impasse and defining a meaningful path forward.
True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership
by Bill George with Peter Sims
(Jossey-Bass)
Based on research and first-person interviews with 125 top business leaders, Professor of Management Practice George describes how anyone can become an authentic leader. He presents a concrete program for leadership success, showing readers how to create their own personal leadership development plan centered on five key areas: knowing your authentic self, orienting your moral compass, understanding your motivations, building your support team, and staying grounded by integrating all aspects of your life.
Masters of Illusion: American Leadership in the Media Age
by Steven Rosefielde & D. Quinn Mills
(Cambridge University Press)
Professor Mills and his coauthor assert that the United States will confront a series of fundamental challenges posed by terrorism, Russia, China, and the European Union through the mid-21st century. Western leaders, they argue, acknowledge the first three perils but are crafting unduly soft policies to deal with them. America requires a new security concept, “strategic indepen-dence,” to keep the peace in dangerous times and to foster new leaders.
Making Foreign Investments Safe: Property Rights and National Sovereignty
by Louis T. Wells and Rafiq Ahmed
(Oxford University Press)
In the 1990s, firms from rich countries invested in projects in the developing world, but soon disputes arose. As projects soured, some investors came close to bankruptcy; others fled the countries. Professor Wells and Ahmed show why these disputes developed, how investments and disputes have changed, and why firms responded differently to crises. They describe how firms, developing countries, and multilateral development organizations can build a conflict-management system balancing the economic and social concerns of both host countries and investors.
