executives

At a point of great crisis, business executive Nick Seagrave finds himself transported to another world, where he is confronted with clear views of both his past and personality and able to witness the realities of heaven and hell.

Fritz Brubaker and his wife, Linda, have it all, the perfect jobs, the perfect children, and the perfect house, but their comfortable world is turned upside down when Fritz is arrested for insider trading.

Ronnie Deal, a gutsy, up-and-coming Hollywood producer, finds her life in danger after humiliating a drug dealer's enforcer in a local bar--but help may come in the form of Ellis Langford, an aspiring screenwriter who also happens to be an ex-con.

Alan Christoffersen, attacked and left to die on the road only sixteen days into his cross-country trek to Key West, wakes in a Spokane, Washington, hospital to realize that he has not only lost his wife, home, and business, but has now been deprived of the ability to walk, and he accepts a generous offer to recuperate at the home of a mysterious woman named Angel, who he learns needs some help along her journey, too.

People are not born leaders. Leadership skills must be learned. Anyone can learn these skills. This book reveals the secrets of what it takes to be a great leader and guides young people toward successful leadership roles both in school and in their future life endeavors.

The glitter of success can turn to fool's gold, suggests O'Neil, president of the California School of Professional Psychology, in a workmanlike guide for executives who have sacrificed personal values in order to further their careers. This "paradox of success," often seen in workaholism, self-doubt or hubris, substance abuse and family problems, is manifest when the executive's suppressed psychological conflicts are sensed and transmitted throughout his or her organization. Becoming a "long distance winner" requires a commitment to a process of probing self-examination, which will lead to renewal. Having achieved renewal, the executive can sustain it only by continuing to practice self-observation to use time constructively, including through various types of retreats and other activities. In a final chapter O'Neil too scantily discusses the application of renewal principles to organizations themselves.

An autobiography of Lee Myung-Bak, president of the Republic of Korea and former CEO of Hyundai Construction, covering his impoverished childhood, family life, and career in business, and politics.

A fictional survey of the Cold War years as seen through the eyes of protagonists Nick Shay, an executive with a waste-management firm, and his one-time lover Klara Sax, an artist.

Discusses the job of managers in careers with character, and focuses on job requirements, integrity, respect, compassion, responsibility, and self-discipline.