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Are you drawn instinctively to the edge of your knowledge rather
than the center of it? Are you attracted to projects and problems with an element
of the unknown in them? Do you have trouble with heated situations? Will
you generally take a chance and make a decision? Your
answers will reveal some of the essential elements of personal and corporate success
in the new economy. Relax It's Only Uncertainty
will help you decide intuitively and act decisively.
Phil Hodgson has worked full time at Ashridge Business School since 1983 and
is co-director of the Action Learning for Chief Executives Program, and co-director
of the Executive Coaching Service. He is a major contributor to Ashridge's strategic
management and leadership programs, as well as being client director for organizations
in healthcare, financial services, FMCG, publishing and manufacturing. In addition,
he taches, consults, researches, and writes in the areas of leadership, change,
handling uncertainty, and top executive learning and development. Phil
is the author of a number of management books, including with Stuart Crainer What
High Performance Managers Really Do, published by Pitman
Publishing in 1993. His fifth book, The Future of Leadership,
with Randall White and Stuart Crainer, also published by Pitman Publishing in
1996, explored and researched the skills needed for effective future leadership
in the face of unprecedented change and uncertainty. Dr.
Randall P. White is a principal in the Executive Development Group LLC, Greensboro,
NC, and an adjunct professor at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. Randall's
work in leadership development regularly takes him to Europe, South America, and
Pacific-Asia. He also teaches MBA students in the Park Fellows Leadership Program
and Executive MBAs at the Johnson School, Cornell University. He spent 12 years
at the Center for Creative Leadership, developing programs and research on leadership,
and has co-authored with Ann Morrison and Ellen Van Velsor the best selling Breaking
the Glass Ceiling: Can Women Make it to the Top of America's Largest Corporations?
Randall's list of current consulting clients includes MD Anderson Cancer Center,
Siemans, Aetna, ABB, Osram Sylvania, Thomson, and Kennametal.
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