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Microsoft is well-known for being an intense place to work: employees face pressure to innovate and excel and are
incredibly devoted to their jobs. In Leadership Therapy , Microsoft consulting psychologist Anna Rowley draws on her twelve years of working with the top levels of Microsoft management, revealing the leadership skills that have helped the company maintain market dominance.
Here she distills the characteristics every leader must have to succeed in a demanding environment: belief, objectivity, insight, connectivity, and ambition. She provides the tools that have helped her clients to continue to attain their potential, while including fascinating case studies of the driven and talented clients she has worked with at Microsoft.
About the author
DR. ANNA ROWLEY is a globally recognized expert in the field of resilience research and performance. She is the founder of Rowley Associates, Inc., a consulting firm working exclusively with Microsoft and specializing in psychological techniques that help managers to develop leadership skills. She is a trained psychologist and has written for scientific publications such as The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and The British Medical Journal as well as general publications such as The Observer. Since 1996 she has consulted exclusively to Microsoft in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Summary
Microsoft is well-known for being an intense place to work: employees face pressure to innovate and excel and are
incredibly devoted to their jobs. In Leadership Therapy, Microsoft consulting psychologist Anna Rowley draws on her twelve years of working with the top levels of Microsoft management, revealing the leadership skills that have helped the company maintain market dominance.
Here she distills the characteristics every leader must have to succeed in a demanding environment: belief, objectivity, insight, connectivity, and ambition. She provides the tools that have helped her clients to continue to attain their potential, while including fascinating case studies of the driven and talented clients she has worked with at Microsoft.
Foreword
The psychologist to Microsoft management reveals the methods for developing leadership skills that have helped its employees transform themselves
