Looks Good on Paper?: Using In-Depth Personality Assessment to Predict Leadership Performance (Columbia Business School Publishing)
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (530 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231168365 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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In Looks Good on Paper?, Pratch applies years of field study to present an easily understandable model to predict long-term senior-management success. Rogers, Jr., chairman, CEO, and chief investment officer, Ariel Investments)Over many years advising on the selection of CEOs and other executives, Pratch has identified the underlying psychological characteristics of effective business leaders under different circumstances and developed a sophisticated methodology for determining whether a given individual would be l
Proven Methodology for Leader Selection Employers make a number of common mistakes they make when considering candidates for leadership roles. For example, a very common belief is that past performance is the best predictor of future performance. But all that past performance shows is that the person was able to do what was demanded of that person in the past; it says nothing about what the person could do with new and emerging challenges. Another is not defining we. Michael Pink said Study This Book If You Are Looking To Hire A CEO Or If You Want Insights Into Your Personality And Others’. One of the best and most important business books I have read in many years, Dr. Pratch’s well researched and brilliantly written description of the CEO assessment process is both timely and revealing. Past performance only shows that a person can perform what was expected of them in the past under the same set of circumstances. It says nothing about how they’ll perform in new situations. By exposing the weaknesses. Ruben Trevino said Looks Good on Paper makes sophisticated psychological insights into leadership accessible. Looks Good on Paper makes sophisticated psychological insights into leadership accessible to many readers. It introduces a holistic model of personality and a specific construct called active coping that Pratch defines as a characteristic of the person as a whole. It is not a trait or a set of cognitions but a way of being, an approach to life, that Pratch defines conceptually and in concrete operational terms, investigates em
Pratch offers knowledge, asks questions, and challenges common perceptions, providing a practical tool for those in business and for the general reader.. This book speaks not only to those in hiring positions and their advisors but also more widely to leaders and anyone who wishes to learn more about their own character and the abilities of those around them. Pratch is a practicing psychologist who focuses on assessing and coaching executives who occupy or are candidates for top positions in business organizations. Leslie S. Central to effective leadership is a psychological quality called "active coping," which Pratch defines and explores by referencing case studies, historical figures, and her own scholarly work. Pratch compares candidates with impressive careers and tries to determine which are likely to act with cons
in clinical psychology from Northwestern University and an MBA in strategy and finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and has published a number of scholarly articles.. Pratch has a Ph.D. Leslie S