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Author Pratch, Leslie S., author.

Title Looks good on paper? : using in-depth personality assessment to predict leadership performance / Leslie S. Pratch.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia Business School Publishing, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 242 pages .)
text file
Series Columbia Business School Publishing
Columbia Business School publishing.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I: The Theory and Practice of Active Coping; 1. The Power of Active Coping; 2. Predicting Performance; 3. Coping Styles and Coping Holes; 4. What Lies Beneath?; 5. Integrity; 6. Psychological Autonomy: Lemmings Need Not Apply; 7. Integrative Capacity: Seeing Reality with Both Eyes Open; 8. Catalytic Coping; 9. Implications for Female Leaders; Part II: Enhancing Your Active Coping; 10. Past Is Not Necessarily Prologue: Improving Your Active Coping; 11. Self-Assessment for Strengthening Active Coping; 12. Developing Active Coping: A Success Story.
13. ConclusionAppendix A: Technical Companion to Chapter 3; Appendix B: Technical Companion to Chapter 4; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Leslie S. Pratch is a practicing psychologist who focuses on assessing and coaching executives who occupy or are candidates for top positions in business organizations. In this book, she shares insights from more than twenty years of executive evaluations and offers an empirically based approach to identify executives who will be effective within organizations?and to flag those who will ultimately fail?by evaluating aspects of personality and character that are hidden beneath the surface. Pratch compares candidates with impressive careers and tries to determine which ones are likel.
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Subject Leadership -- Psychological aspects.
Leadership -- Psychological aspects.
Executive ability.
Executive ability.
Personality assessment.
Personality assessment.
Executives -- Psychology.
Executives -- Psychology.
Executives -- Selection and appointment.
Executives -- Selection and appointment.
Executives.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Pratch, Leslie S. Looks good on paper?. 9780231168366 0231168365 (DLC) 2013049165
ISBN 0231537646 (electronic book)
9780231537643 (electronic book)
9780231168366 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0231168365 (cloth ; alkaline paper)

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