Books

Coaching Yourself to Leadership: Five Key Strategies for Becoming an Integrated Leader

Coaching Yourself to Leadership: 5 Key Strategies for Becoming an Integrated Leader by Ginny O'Brien In her easy-to-read style, Ginny describes the five key strategies that are essential for becoming an integrated leader. Using Ginny’s exercises, self-assessments, and real-life case studies, you’ll learn how to build skills in the three domains of leadership — self, others and work. You’ll learn how to…

lead with authenticity,
create vision and think strategically
develop your emotional intelligence
become an assertive communicator
build the critical relationships and alliances that will enhance your leadership

Order Coaching Yourself to Leadership (IBSN# 0-87425-869-3) online for $19.95 at Amazon.com or HRDPress.com

Success on Our Own Terms

Success on Our Own Terms tells the stories of 45 extraordinary, ordinary women from Fortune 500 companies who succeeded by working according to their own value systems, their own management styles, and their own definitions of success. The book describes how they navigated corporate corridors, aligned with mentors, used their intuitive skills, developed career strategies, and raised their feminine voices to create new working structures and develop successful careers. Based on her interviews with these managers and on a national survey to which 700 women responded, Virginia O'Brien found that women's definitions of success - with their focus on goals, relationship, contribution and balance - can have a positive influence on organizational systems and create shifts around what it means to succeed.

You can order Success on Our Own Terms: Tales of Extraordinary, Ordinary Business Women (John Wiley, 1998) ISBN: 0-471-17871-3 from amazon.com

The Fast Forward MBA in Business

The Fast Forward MBA in Business (John Wiley, 1996), is an easy-to-read guide to basic business principles and leading-edge management theories. It gives you instant access to the cutting-edge thought and hard-won wisdom of experienced executives, savvy entrepreneurs, and top business educators. In short, lively segments it delivers the information you need without bogging you down in theory. You'll find brief descriptions of key concepts, tips on real-world applications, compact case studies, helpful tables, and warnings on how to avoid pitfalls. This handy book, with it's easy-to-use format, has been translated into five languages.

You can order The Fast Forward MBA in Business ISBN # 0-471-14660-9, from amazon.com

Here’s what the experts say about Coaching Yourself to Leadership:

"Ginny has created an excellent self-study guidebook illustrating the essential ingredients of leadership savvy and advancement. Her 5-part skill model outlines the necessary change process to achieve improvement and mastery. Spiced with practical case examples and provocative coaching exercises, this book is a valuable tool for today's leaders who must take responsibility for their own professional development."

Gail McMeekin, President, Creative Success, and author of The Power of Positive Choices and The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women

"In Coaching Yourself to Leadership, Ginny O'Brien takes a fresh look at what it takes to be a truly effective leader. She believes that "leadership develops internally with a deep understanding of self, but blossoms externally from knowing how to empathize, engage and communicate with others." If you aspire to leadership, or simply want to understand it better, you owe it to yourself to read this important book on a critical subject."

Lynn A. Robinson, Intuitive consultant and author of Divine Intuition and Real Prosperity:Compass of the Soul

Ginny has done it again! Coaching Yourself to Leadership: Five Key Strategies for Becoming an Integrated Leader is a highly readable, well organized window into what it really takes to become a leader in today's economy. No pat "formulas" here. Just wise suggestions, great exercises and lots of practical knowledge gleaned from a rich background of excellent research and many years of successfully coaching her clients. This book goes straight into my library - our coaching clients are going to love it!

Sydney Rice, M.Ed. President, Boston Coaching Company, Inc., and author of Choice Points.

Order Coaching Yourself to Leadership (IBSN# 0-87425-869-3) online for $19.95 at Amazon.com or HRDPress.com

Here’s what the experts say about Success on Our Own Terms :

Business Week: "A useful compass for women navigating the fast-changing workplace of the Information Age."

Publishers Weekly: "An eyeopening look at women in the business world that is also filled with useful pointers."

Booklist: "[O'Brien] effectively changes the definition of corporate success."

Women in Business: "Real stories – stories of ordinary women who are making extraordinary strides in the workplace – provide valuable insights."

Sally Helgesen, Author, The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership: "Wonderful, timely, and absolutely refreshing. Virginia O'Brien's positive and comprehensive approach enables her to present an accurate and astute analysis of how women are changing the corporate world."

Caryl Rivers, Author, She Works; He Works: "O'Brien tells fascinating stories of working women and shows how women are bending the idea of business success to the idea of women's success. It's a heartening read."

Charles E. Rice, Chairman and CEO, Barnett Banks, Inc.: "Insightful and informative. This excellent work brings the stories of successful women executives to the forefront."

Carol R. Goldberg, President, The Avcar Group, former President and COO of Stop and Shop Companies, Inc.: "Success on Our Own Terms is a must read. This book is proof that women, through their stories and collective voices, can redefine success."

You can order Success on Our Own Terms: Tales of Extraordinary, Ordinary Business Women (John Wiley, 1998) ISBN: 0-471-17871-3 from amazon.com

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