Why are the successful?

Jen Ko

This book captures over six hundred years of management and leadership experience culminated from sixty-three elite managers, influential leaders and forty-eight hard-working staff. Their experience range from accounting, engineering, human resource management, economics, designs, small business owners, Chief Executive Officers, military officers, entrepreneurs, managers, supervisors, tradesmen, bricklayers and artists.

CONTENTS

I. The Beginning 1
II. Let’s keep it on the same page 3
1. I beg your pardon? 5
2. ‘Words’ are double-edge ‘Swords’ 10
3. Communicating in meetings 13
4. Communications is more than words 18
5. Good communications ≠ talking 23
6. How to get more than you ‘ask’ for 28
7. Death, cancer, presenting… 32
III. Doing more with less 37
1. Your greatest enemy 38
2. A million and one things 44
3. Work versus result 47
4. How to be an obstacle 53
5. Re-invent the wheel 59
6. Meetings…the practical alternative to work 63
IV. The Juggling Trick 72
1. Challenging the rules 72
2. Process or principle 77
3. Work-Life Balance 83
V. Your People 87
1. The appraisal system… does it work? 88
2. Performance booster 95
3. Things that drive them nuts 104
4. “Where are they all going??!!” 108
5. The role-models 115
VI. Innovation 120
1. Making dreams a reality 121
2. The big players 126
VII. The End of the Beginning 132