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 consistent, overwhelming business success. Based on his work at Fortune 500 corporations including ITT and PepsiCo, Meagher has uncovered a powerful failure mechanism that prevails among many corporate executives. Using real-world cases, Meagher illuminates this complex and little-understood problem in an eye-opening allegorical review of why corporate employees don't always know how to "play nice" and how an inability to collaborate can result in dramatic executive flops. Meagher then delivers a practical framework for tackling the challenge with highly respected and effective tools, including Meyers-Briggs and his own Woodstone High-Performance Model. What Will Susan Say? is a clear and concise roadmap for both those aiming for the boardroom and those who are ready to improve their business relationships and corporate accomplishments.

• 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...

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...