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Alpha Male Syndrome | 
 enlarge | Authors: Kate Ludeman, Eddie Erlandson
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 91556
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 276
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 1591399130
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.4094
EAN: 9781591399131
ASIN: 1591399130
Publication Date: October 10, 2006
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The business world swarms with alpha males - powerhouses who take charge, produce astonishing results, and bring enormous value to their organisations. But many alphas also leave a path of destruction in their wake. In "Alpha Male Syndrome", Kate Ludeman and Eddie Erlandson build on their "Harvard Business Review" article "Coaching the Alpha Male" - showing alphas how to leverage their unique strengths while confronting their destructive 'flip side risks'.
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Great condition, great price! November 10, 2008
Alpha Male arrived from the seller in about a week. I couldn't believe how little I paid for a brand new book. The condition of the book is excellent and the ordering process was a snap.
ESTJ, ISTJ July 12, 2008
If you know anything about personality types from either Socionics (Rod Novichkov) or MBTI then you'll know who the Alpha Male is exactly (ESTJ or ISTJ personality types). This book shows you logical ways of dealing with people of these personality types. It's good reading.
Addresses the real difficulty of managing opinionated pros March 18, 2008
Making a great team out of a group of driving and opinionated managers and professionals is hard; they need to trust and rely on each other when in fact it is more comfortable for them to stay apart. The Alpha Male Syndrome is a rare and valuable book that offers real solutions to these difficulties.
Alpha Male August 23, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very good book for those who want to understand what's going on in the management team. All managers should read this book. A must
A Landmark Management Study of Alpha Male May 9, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Two management consultants have jointly written this book about alpha males who occupy some 75% senior management positions in America's business world. According to them, alpha males are indomitable, tenacious, and persevering enough to reach the apex of their career. They inspire awe and respect but could move people to fear and trembling. Despite having great career success, the downside of their traits and behaviours such as the `laws of the jungle' attitude, interpersonal impatience, and difficult controlling anger can have devastating effect to their health, marriage, and other people surrounding them.
Both writers marry hard data on some 1,500 executives and base on their abundant coaching experience with senior executives from Fortune 500 firms to figure out why such top dogs become pit bulls that snowball problems and expose their vulnerabilities. In short, alpha males are various in terms of their different traits they possess such as commander, visionary, strategist, and executor. Some are inclined to act like visionaries that often dream up exotic ideas but hate naysayers. Others have an uncanny ability to deal with crisis but tend to exercise their authority through intimidation and domination. Both writers conclude that Trump's `apprentice' mentality would do more harm than good. In today's business environment where trust, respect, and collaborative dialogue between corporate bigwigs and coworkers are vital for business survival and growth, both writers offer alpha males a list of `awareness of self and others' tools that could guide them beyond the `alpha triangle' trap and move themselves and their people to effectiveness.
This book is a comprehensive study of alpha males. It is also a landmark management study that not only fills need for alpha males but also provides an impetus for further research on this subject. Revealing the importance of tapping human potentials in teams to high performance, alpha males should learn how to involve the whole team that harness their intelligence, vitality, and drive without wreaking havoc on working relationships. They have to put aside their `zero-sum' jungle mentality as well as personal glory in pursuit of the alchemy of human connections. This book is accompanied by a website that contains an online alpha assessment to testify whether you are an alpha male or not and also your alpha strengths and risks. It helps readers undertake a self-awareness exercise in order to understand and modify their tendencies and risk areas. Chapter 8 provides alpha males with a repertoire of tools to practice emotional and physical reset such as stress relief and endorphin increments in order to achieve high-level health and wellness.
This book is highly recommended for readers who are interested in understanding more about the upside as well as downside traits of alpha males. It is also a highly recommended book for alpha males who aspire to leverage their strengths and subdue their flip-side risks for the best interest of shareholders and their people.
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