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Mojo is the moment when we feel we’re ‘on a roll’, firing on all cylinders, and everyone around us senses it. When we’re moving forward, making progress, achieving goals, clearing hurdles, passing the competition—and doing so with increasing ease. Sports people call this being “in the zone;” others describe it as “flow.” Marshall describes it as Mojo--“that positive spirit toward what we are doing now that starts from the inside and radiates to the outside.”

Mojo plays a vital role in our pursuit of happiness and meaning because it is about achieving two simple goals: loving what we do and showing it. And it becomes apparent when the positive feelings toward what we are doing come from inside us and are evident for others to see. In other words, it is the moment when there’s no gap between the positive way we perceive ourselves—what we are doing—and how we are perceived by others.

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In a challenging business climate, enterprises look to their leaders. Some situations call for drastic change, while others require the fortitude to stay the course. Who better to help today's leaders than a who's who of the greatest leadership thinkers of our time? The AMA Handbook of Leadership features insights from best-of-the-best thought leaders and executive leadership coaches around the world, covering a wide range of leadership challenges such as sustainability, competitive advantage through leadership, leading across cultures, succession, and other issues critical to current and future business leaders.

“The literature supporting the study of leadership is diverse and provides the conceptual framework required to understand this complex and critical field of knowledge. This literature often takes diverse paths, varying from the more applied to the more research-oriented presentations. Along with this diversity, the leadership literature ages quickly as new ideas, approaches, and insights emerge. The editors of this handbook have labored diligently to breathe new life into the literature on leadership, revitalizing it and providing an exciting new direction. Masterfully weaving the themes of 21st-century global leadership and strategies for developing and engaging people and facilitating change, the contributors, experts in the field of leadership, present an exciting discussion of the many facets of contemporary change and effective leadership, supported with case studies and up-to-date research. The currency of the literature presented is beyond striking. The value of the AMA Handbook is profound and far-reaching. For readers seeking new and exciting reading on leadership as well as for corporate executives charged with leading corporations to a positive and productive future, this volume is a must. It is seminal in content and a valuable addition to libraries everywhere. Summing Up: Essential. Business and leadership collections, all levels.”

– Choice J. B. Kashner,emeritus, College of the Southwest. Choice is the academic publication of the American Library Association (ALA).

Marshall Goldsmith, John Baldoni, Sarah McArthur [eds.]

To paraphrase Peter Drucker; we spend a lot of time teaching people what to do…we don’t spend enough time teaching people what to stop doing. In What Got You Here Won’t Get You There…in Sales! we offer a surprisingly familiar compilation of what we all do at one time or another to turn off our customers…our friends…even our loved ones – a list of what we unconsciously do to destroy instead of nurture the human connection between customer and company.

We can change all this. Get out a notepad. Instead of your usual “To-Do” list, start your “To-Stop” list. Ask yourself, “What am I willing to change right now?” Just do that… it’s more than enough – and we will show you how!

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Marshall Goldsmith’s recent book, Succession: Are You Ready? is the latest addition to the Harvard Business ‘Memo to the CEO’ series.

This book is written in the form of a series of memos to the CEO of a major company, and delves into the human side of the executive succession process. Dr. Goldsmith builds upon his 31 years of experience as an executive advisor to the world’s leading corporations and shares ‘real world’ examples of the challenges and opportunities in top management transition. While the book is written as letters to a fictional CEO, the learnings apply to leaders at all levels – who are faced with the prospect of either letting go or developing their successor.

"Marshall's proven improvement process ROCKS!"

Alan Mulally, CEO, Ford Motor Company

—Knowledge@Wharton

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