What Will Susan Say?: A Parable of Corporate Leadership

by Edward A. Meagher III

Book Overview

Why do America's best and brightest corporate leaders have a peculiar tendency to trip and fall at the exact moment their genius is put to the test? In What Will Susan Say?, renowned human resources executive and consultant Edward A. Meagher III explores how corporate America really works, examines why talented executives blunder so frequently, and offers simple, highly effective solutions for overcoming the "failure phenomenon" to achieve...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595471188
• ISBN13: 9780595471188
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Engaging story with great insights

This is a great book! It's a fairly easy read. The story is engaging and the characters were nicely developed and credible. It ends with a bit of a twist which helps cement the message. The authors have done a nice job of writing an interesting "management" book while still driving home their point that team work, performance management and leadership drive the highest quality results.

What Will Susan Say?: A Corporate Parable

This book is to the point! Excellent! In this leadership fable, Meagher, Founder and CEO of Woodstone Consulting in Colorado, stimulates the readers thinking with an enjoyable story that immerses the reader. Most business books will inspire YOU but do nothing to change your leadership style or the culture of your organization. This book is different because Meagher brings it all together and delivers a great message to any level...CEO, Manager, Team Leader or overall employee. The story is not only for CEO's and Highly Educated individuals. It is for every individual that is aware of success. Identifying with Steve, a reluctant CEO, is not hard to do and a little uncomfortable at times because his situation hits close to home. The discomfort with relating to the story dissolves with the learning that comes in page after page. This is a quick read filled with useful information that will prove easy to digest and implement. The fable is well-woven and thought-provoking.

Good book on how to make your biz succeed...

A friend lent me this book for the plane ride from New York to Minn./St. Paul, and I have to say it was a fun read. It's a how-to-succeed-in-business book wrapped up in a story. I can't stand reading business books with a list of lessons at the end of each chapter, but this was different. It's about this gifted accountant who initially succeeds in a big way, then goes on to crash and burn... Meagher seems to have a "No preaching allowed" policy in his book. The book is almost all story, and you come away with it knowing how executives succeed and fail. By the end, you'll see what accounts for the difference between the two...