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Twsm makes the book selections among the most recent publications of books on business with a focus on Hr and management, by relying on book reviews and by distinguishing the ones that can be considered as guides for organisations and managers. From talent management to how to attract and retain talents, consequences of toxic leaders to the central characteristics of successful managers, new leadership feautres to loyalty issues, from lessons that will lead through crisis to the importance of taking lessons out of failures and even much more can be found within our selections. We provide a list of books that today’s managers must have in store. For any other related book suggestions to be presented within the twsm book selection, please send an e-mail with the title, the author and the publishing house to welcome@theworkstylemagazine.com .

cal and emotional abuse among the engineers had been swept aside and not dealt with for approximately six years! What were the results? Leadership was “toxic” by virtue of ignoring, denying and trivializing abusive behavior. Moreover, toxic leadership had unwittingly created and sustained a dysfunctional culture that allowed bullying to metastasize throughout the company. In other cases presented in the book Goldman describes destructive leaders who are adored and applauded by a majority of their followers. Such “yes men” followers are mostly concerned with “what’s in it for me” and not jeopardizing their performance evaluations. Followers who do not report bad leader behavior are also concerned that any negative reports on their part might serve to threaten their prospects for advancement in the company. Ironically, Transforming Toxic Leaders also illustrates how toxic leadership is not all negative and can in fact be a positive force within an organisation’s life. In the case of Dr. Ivan Lorimer, head cardiac surgeon for Eisenhower Heart Institute, he exhibited narcissistic traits, symptoms of an intermittent explosive disorder and obsessive compulsive tendencies that made him difficult for his surgical team to deal with. But it also drove him to command excellence from his staff and for his patients. As an elite mitral valve surgeon and leader of his institute’s cardiology division, Dr. Lorimer was an extraordinary perfec• tionist in part driven by his narcissistic and obsessive compulsive traits.

Steve Kerr, Dean

A. Shepherd,

From Lemons to Lemonade: Squeeze Every Last Drop of Success Out of

Your Mistakes, Wharton School Publishing 207 pp. ¤ 15,14 We all fail. And we all want to learn from our failures. But learning from failure doesn’t happen automatically. It requires very specific emotional and rational skills. We can learn those skills from this book. Drawing on leading-edge research with hundreds of failing and successful entrepreneurs, Dr. Dean A. Shepherd offers powerful strategies for managing the emotions generated by failure so failure becomes less devastating, learning happens faster, and you grow as much as possible from the experience. Kenichi Ohmae, next Global Stage:

The: Challenges and Opportunities in Our Borderless

World, Wharton School Publishing 212 pp. ¤ 28,32 In The Next Global Stage, Kenichi Ohmae reveals the postglobalized world and shows what it’ll take to succeed there, as a company, a nation, and as an individual. This book doesn’t just explain what’s already happened: it offers a roadmap for action in the world that’s beginning to emerge.

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Cornelia Dean,

Am I Making Myself Clear? A Scientist’s Guide to Talking to the

Public, Harvard University Press 274pp. ¤ 16,14 Am I Making Myself Clear? shows scientists how to speak to the public, handle the media, and describe their work to a lay audience on paper, online, and over the airwaves. It is a book that will improve the tone and content of debate over critical issues and will serve the interests of science and society.

William A.

Schiemann,

Reinventing Talent Management: How to Maximize Performance in the new

Marketplace, John Wiley & Sons 272 pp ¤ 23,97 Reinventing Talent Management will demonstrate the need to adopt fresh thinking to managing talent in organisations of every size and type. The conclusions are based on an examination of the new talent marketplace and the role it plays in shaping organisational growth and survival . It is possible to find throughout the book many recommended actions and best practice ideas.