John D Daniels; Lee H Radebaugh:
International Business: Environments and Operations - Paperback
2013, ISBN: 9780201107135
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Harvard Business Review Press. Very Good. 6 x 1 x 8.25 inches. Paperback. 2013. 336 pages.<br>This is the book that established emotional intelli gence in the business lexicon-and m… More...
Harvard Business Review Press. Very Good. 6 x 1 x 8.25 inches. Paperback. 2013. 336 pages.<br>This is the book that established emotional intelli gence in the business lexicon-and made it a necessary skill for l eaders. Managers and professionals across the globe have embrace d Primal Leadership, affirming the importance of emotionally inte lligent leadership. Its influence has also reached well beyond th e business world: the book and its ideas are now used routinely i n universities, business and medical schools, and professional tr aining programs, and by a growing legion of professional coaches. This refreshed edition, with a new preface by the authors, vivi dly illustrates the power-and the necessity-of leadership that is self-aware, empathic, motivating, and collaborative in a world t hat is ever more economically volatile and technologically comple x. It is even timelier now than when it was originally published. From bestselling authors Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee, this groundbreaking book remains a must-read for any one who leads or aspires to lead. Also available in ebook format wherever ebooks are sold. Editorial Reviews Review A New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Globe and Mail , Boston Globe, and Booklist bestseller. Primal Leadership reass esses what makes a great leader. - TIME Invigorating. - USA Toda y a timely resource for those aspiring to lead on the cutting ed ge of today's business environment. Thoroughly action-oriented, i t breaks down the qualities making up primal-or resonant-leadersh ip, discussing how to develop each one, with specific examples fr om various organizations. - T+D magazine (American Society for Tr aining & Development) [A] fascinating account of how emotions ar e at the heart of effective leadership. Filled with practical adv ice backed up by research, this book is a gem-smart reading for s tudents and leaders alike. - David Gergen, Professor of Public Se rvice and Director, Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School, Harvard University Sound and practical advice on leadin g effectively, based on science and business experience, from the leader in the field of emotional intelligence. - Martin Seligman , Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylva nia About the Author Daniel Goleman is an internationally known psychologist and author of the bestselling Emotional Intelligence . Richard Boyatzis is Distinguished University Professor at Case Western Reserve University, and an expert in the field of emotion al intelligence. Annie McKee is a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and adviser to leaders around the globe. ., Harvard Business Review Press, 2013, 3, Picador. Good. 5.12 x 1.54 x 7.76 inches. Paperback. 1990. 880 pages. Text tanned. Spine cracked.<br>25th ANNIVERSARY EDITIO N. One of the most acclaimed books of our time--the definitive Vi etnam War exposé. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an enterp rise riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a charismatic sol dier who put his life and career on the line in an attempt to con vince his superiors that the war should be fought another way. By the time he died in 1972, Vann had embraced the follies he once decried. He died believing that the war had been won. In this ma gisterial book, a monument of history and biography that was awar ded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction , a renowned journalist tells the story of John Vann--the one irr eplaceable American in Vietnam--and of the tragedy that destroyed a country and squandered so much of America's young manhood and resources. Editorial Reviews Amazon Review This passionate, epic account of the Vietnam War centers on Lt. Col. John Paul Va nn, whose story illuminates America's failures and disillusionmen t in Southeast Asia. Vann was a field adviser to the army when Am erican involvement was just beginning. He quickly became appalled at the corruption of the South Vietnamese regime, their incompet ence in fighting the Communists, and their brutal alienation of t heir own people. Finding his superiors too blinded by political l ies to understand that the war was being thrown away, he secretly briefed reporters on what was really happening. One of those rep orters was Neil Sheehan. This definitive expose on why America lo st the war won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1989. --This text refers to the hardcover edition. Excerpt. ® Reprinted by pe rmission. All rights reserved. from The Funeral It was a funeral to which they all came. They gathered in the red brick chapel be side the cemetery gate. Six gray horses were hitched to a caisson that would carry the coffin to the grave. A marching band was re ady. An honor guard from the Army's oldest regiment, the regiment whose rolls reached back to the Revolution, was also formed in r anks before the white Georgian portico of the chapel. The soldier s were in full dress, dark blue trimmed with gold, the colors of the Union Army, which had safeguarded the integrity of the nation . The uniform was unsuited to the warmth and humidity of this Fri day morning in the early summer of Washington, but this state fun eral was worthy of the discomfort. John Paul Vann, the soldier of the war in Vietnam, was being buried at Arlington on June 16, 19 72. The war had already lasted longer than any other in the nati on's history and had divided America more than any conflict since the Civil War. In this war without heroes, this man had been the one compelling figure. The intensity and distinctiveness of his character and the courage and drama of his life had seemed to sum up so many of the qualities Americans admired in themselves as a people. By an obsession, by an unyielding dedication to the war, he had come to personify the American endeavor in Vietnam. He ha d exemplified it in his illusions, in his good intentions gone aw ry, in his pride, in his will to win. Where others had been defea ted or discouraged over the years, or had become disenchanted and had turned against the war, he had been undeterred in his crusad e to find a way to redeem the unredeemable, to lay hold of victor y in this doomed enterprise. At the end of a decade of struggle t o prevail, he had been killed one night a week earlier when his h elicopter had Kontum, an offensive by the North Vietnamese Army w hich had threatened to bring the Vietnam venture down in defeat. Those who had assembled to see John Vann to his grave reflected the divisions and the wounds that the war had inflicted on Americ an society. At the same time they had, almost every one, been tou ched by this man. Some had come because they had admired him and shared his cause even now; some because they had parted with him along the way, but still thought of him as a friend; some because they had been harmed by him, but cherished him for what he might have been. Although the war was to continue for nearly another t hree years with no dearth of dying in Vietnam, many at Arlington on that June morning in 1972 sensed that they were burying with J ohn Vann the war and the decade of Vietnam. With Vann dead, the r est could be no more than a postscript. He had gone to Vietnam a t the beginning of the decade, in March 1962, at the age of thirt y-seven, as an Army lieutenant colonel, volunteering to serve as senior advisor to a South Vietnamese infantry division in the Mek ong Delta south of Saigon. The war was still an adventure then. T he previous December, President John F. Kennedy had committed the arms of the United States to the task of suppressing a Communist -led rebellion and preserving South Vietnam as a separate state g overned by an American-sponsored regime in Saigon. --This text re fers to the hardcover edition. From Library Journal Vann was a f igure of legends, first as a military advisor and later as a civi lian official, renowned for his bravery and special insight into and openness about the developing failure in Vietnam. He appeared to sacrifice his military career in 1963, demonstrating uncommon integrity, and died in 1972 after leading the successful defense of Kontum. Sheehan, the New York Times reporter who obtained the Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg, reveals a flawed herocapab le of deceit in furthering his reputation and his cause and of in satiable sexual exploits that had already ended hopes of promotio nbut still a remarkable man. More importantly, Vann serves as the anchor of a detailed, well-researched, very respectable, and rea dable attempt to explain the Vietnam experience. Excerpted in The New Yorker. Highly recommended. BMOC main selection.Kenneth W. B erger, Duke Univ. Lib., Durham, N.C. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the hardcover edition. From the Publisher If there is one book that captures the Vietnam war in the sheer Homeric scale of its passion and folly, this is it.--The New York Times Book Review --This text refers to the ha rdcover edition. Review Masterly. . . . One of the few brillian t histories of the American entanglement in Vietnam. --The New Yo rk Times A brilliant work of enormous substance and ambition. In telling one man's story [A Bright Shining Lie] sets out to defin e the fatal contradictions that lost America the war in Vietnam. It belongs to the same order of merit as Dispatches, The Best and the Brightest, and Fire in the Lake. --Robert Stone, Washington Post Book World A compelling, graphic, and deeply sensitive biog raphy [and] one of the few brilliant histories of the American en thanglement in Vietnam. . . . Sheehan's skillful weaving of anecd ote and history, of personal memoir and psychological profile, gi ve the book the sense of having been written by a novelist, journ alist, and scholar all rolled up into one. --David Shipler, The N ew York Times If there is one book that catpures the Vietnam War in the sheer Homeric scale of its passion and folly, this book i s it. Neil Sheehan orchestrates a great fugue evoking all the ele ments of the war. --Ronald Steel, The New York Times Book Review An unforgettable narrative, a chronicle grand enough to suit the crash and clangors of whole armies. A Bright Shining Lie is a ve ry great piece of work; its rewards are aesthetic and . . . almos t spiritual. --The New York Review of Books Enormous power . . . full of great accomplishments . . . Neil Sheehan has written not only the best book ever about Vietnam, but the timeliest. --News week It is difficult to believe that anyone will write a more gr ipping or important book on America's war in Vietnam than A Brigh t Shining Lie, a towering book that has been 16 years in the maki ng. . . . Sheehan shows, perhaps more convincingly than anyone el se who has written on the subject, that our intervention in Vietn am was in fact a terrible blunder, damaging to America and devast ating to the Vietnamese and the other people of Indochina--a mist ake as tragic as it was unnecessary. --Detroit News [A Bright Sh ining Lie] is more than a biography. It is also a compelling and clear hstiroy of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Mr. Sheehan's book . . . is the best answer to any American who asks: 'How could thi s have happened?' --Wall Street Journal Using the life of one ma n as his framework, Neil Sheehan has written the best book on Ame rica's involvement in Vietnam since Frances FitzGerald's Fire in the Lake. --Kirkus Reviews One of the milestones in the literatu re about the war. . . . In these times, a readable book about the Vietnam war, like any other clear warning, is worth its weight i n life. --Christian Science Monitor --This text refers to the har dcover edition. About the Author Neil Sheehan is the author of A Fiery Peace in a Cold War. He spent three years in Vietnam as a war correspondent for United Press International and The New York Times and won numerous awards for his reporting. In 1971 he obta ined the Pentagon Papers, which brought the Times the Pulitzer Pr ize Gold Medal for meritorious public service. Sheehan lives in W ashington, D.C. He is married to the writer Susan Sheehan. From the Hardcover edition. --This text refers to the hardcover editio n. From Publishers Weekly Killed in a helicopter crash in Vietna m in 1972, controversial Lt. Col. John Paul Vann was perhaps the most outspoken army field adviser to criticize the way the war wa s being waged. Appalled by the South Vietnamese troops' unwilling ness to fight and their random slaughter of civilians, he flouted his supervisors and leaked his sharply pessimistic (and, as it t urned out, accurate) assessments to the U.S. press corps in Saigo n. Among them was Sheehan, a reporter for UPI and later the New Y ork Times (for whom he obtained the Pentagon Papers). Sixteen yea rs in the making, writing and re search, this compelling 768-page biography is an extraordinary feat of reportage: an eloquent, di sturbing portrait of a man who in many ways personified the U.S. war effort. Blunt, idealistic, patronizing to the Vietnamese, Van n firmly believed the U.S. could win; as Sheehan limns him, he wa s ultimately caught up in his own illusions. The author weaves in to one unified chronicle an account of the Korean War (in which V ann also fought), the story of U.S. support for French colonialis m, descriptions of military battles, a critique of our foreign po licy and a history of this all-American boy's secret personal lie he was illegitimate, his mother a white trash prostitutethat led him to recklessly gamble away his career. 100,000 first printing; first serial to the New Yorker; BOMC main selection ; a uthor to ur. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text r efers to the hardcover edition. From the Inside Flap Sheehan's t ragic biography of John Paul Vann is also a sweeping history of A merica's seduction, entrapment and disillusionment in Vietnam. -- This text refers to the hardcover edition. ., Picador, 1990, 2.5, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1986-01-01. 4th. Hardcover. Like New., Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1986-01-01, 5<
