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Resilient people are happier, healthier, and more productive. Psychologist and business writer Adrian Furnham takes a sideways and entertaining look at the challenges of being a leader, demonstrating how resilience can be honed, developed, and used as a personal life raft to keep afloat in the face...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137361073 |
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Resilient people are happier, healthier, and more productive. Psychologist and business writer Adrian Furnham takes a sideways and entertaining look at the challenges of being a leader, demonstrating how resilience can be honed, developed, and used as a personal life raft to keep afloat in the face of adversity. 'Adrian Furnham is the best known social psychologist in the UK. He is widely travelled, widely read, broadly educated, and has a keen eye for the gritty absurdities of organizational life. This book, a collection of wide ranging and sharp observations on how management affects the well-being of everyone is a witty, fun, engaging, provocative, and ultimately very rewarding read.' -Robert Hogan, CEO Hogan Assessments, USA 'Furnham's latest masterpiece expertly blends academic rigour, real-world relevance and pithy observations to help managers and scholars alike get to grips with issues like |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137361066, 2013. |
| Carrier Form: | 247 p. |
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9781137361073 : 1137361077 : |
| CLC: | F272.92 |
| Contents: | Preface Introduction 1. Building a Team 2. Getting the Best out of People 3. The Daily Grind 4. It's all in the Delivery - Management Behavior 5. Learning on the Job 6. Life Beyond. |