Knowledge @ Wharton Summer Reading Collection

by Roberto

For a limited time, receive four Wharton School Publishing books, which are excerpted in the Knowledge@Wharton Summer Book Lie Low, Lean Back, and Read. Additionally, as a bonus, you'll receive Built for Growth, the ground breaking book by Arthur Rubinfeld. The Knowledge@Wharton Summer Reading Collection was designed specifically for readers who want in-depth coverage of the issues and ideas that drive business today. With more than 1,500 pages from the world's leading authorities on product design, management, marketing, and leadership, this collection is a must have for readers who have come to know and respect the business insight provided every two weeks by Knowledge@Wharton. This limited time offer is available to you at the special discounted price of $64.95 , a savings of more than 50%, and Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an   Executives hear “yes” far too often. Their status and power inhibits candid dialogue. They don’t hear bad news until it’s too late. They get groupthink, not reality. They think they’ve achieved consensus, then find their decisions undermined or derailed by colleagues who never really bought in. They become increasingly isolated; even high-risk or illegal actions can begin to go unquestioned. Inevitable? Absolutely not. In this book, Harvard Business School Professor Michael Roberto shows you how to promote honest, constructive dissent and skepticism... use it to improve your decisions... and then align your entire organization to fully support the decisions you make. Drawing on his extensive research on executive decision-making, Roberto shows how to test and probe the members of your management team... discover when “yes” means “yes” and when it doesn’t... and build real, deep consensus that leads to action . Along the way, Roberto offers important new insights into managing teams, mitigating risk, promoting corporate ethics through effective governance, and much more.

Hardcover

Published October 18, 2005