The Vest Pocket CEO Author:Alexander Hiam This is an at-a-glance practical guidebook for tackling nearly every business problem. Providing innovative solutions to the most challenging problems facing today's decision makers, "The Vest Pocket CEO, Second Edition" helps you meet all these needs and more, with a combination of encyclopedic coverage and down-to-earth practical writing that ... more »gets to the point fast. A combination of Executive Overviews, Step by Step Instructions and Q&As make the reading relevant, tight and interesting, and move the reader through the keeper points from each topic, quickly. It shows how to handle the rising performance pressures of the executive office. It covers new managerial challenges in areas such as leadership of a diverse workforce, planning winning strategies, forming high-performing teams, avoiding business risks and catastrophes, managing with emotional intelligence, and negotiating winning deals for your organization. It includes insider advice on how to avoid derailment and advance an executive career. This is the broadest, easiest to use and most contemporary coverage of executive skills available, in a succinct form and convenient format. Offering a new, improved approach to CEO skill development reaching all the way to first-line supervisors, "The Vest Pocket CEO, Second Edition" instills essential executive skills in every manager.« less