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MARCH 18, 2003

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Michael Useem's Book Recommendations

Michael Useem's Book Recommendations^^^^Michael Useem's Book Recommendations

Michael Useem
Professor of Management
U Penn

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• EXECUTION: THE DISCIPLINE OF GETTING THINGS DONE by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
"The actions that translate good strategies into great results."

• GOOD TO GREAT: WHY SOME COMPANIES MAKE THE LEAP...AND OTHERS DON'T by Jim Collins
"How effective leaders combine personal humility with firm determination to move average performers into great producers."

• CLICKS AND MORTAR: PASSION DRIVEN GROWTH IN AN INTERNET DRIVEN WORLD by David S. Pottruck and Terry Pearce
"How the now CEO of Charles Schwab lead the company into the internet age and beyond."

• DUTY FIRST: WEST POINT AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN LEADERS by Ed Ruggero
"How cadets going through the U.S. Military Academy learn to lead, with lessons for all who seek to develop their own leadership."

Biographical Info:

Michael Useem is Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

His university teaching includes MBA and executive-MBA courses on management and leadership, and he offers programs on leadership and change for managers in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He also works on leadership development with many companies and organizations in the private, public and non-profit sectors.

He is the author of The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All, and, to experience such moments, he organizes teams of Wharton graduates, company managers, and other groups for treks up the slopes of Mount Everest, trips to Civil War battlefields, and other learning events for leadership development.

He recently published Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win, and he is co-author and co-editor of the forthcoming book, Upward Bound: Nine Original Accounts of How Business Leaders Reached Their Summits (October, 2003).

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