ABOUT THE BOOK

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    Accession Number

 B4397

    Title

 Better Under Pressure: How Great Leaders Bring Out The Best In Themeselves And Others

    Author

 Menkes, Justin

    Publisher

 Harvard Business Review Press

    ISBN

 978-1-4221-3870-0

     Summary

In Better Under Pressure, Justin Menkes reveals the common traits that make these leaders successful. Drawing on in-depth interviews with sixty CEOs from an array of industries and performance data from two hundred other leaders, Menkes shows that great executives strive relentlessly to maximize their own potential-as well as stoke their people’s innate thirst for their own triumphs. To do so, they draw on a set of three essential and rare attributes: • Realistic optimism • Subservience to purpose • Finding order in chaos