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Thinking Like a Winner: A Guide to High Performance Leadership
Thinking Like a Winner A Guide to High Performance Leadership Author:Mark J. Martinko This book describes how high performing individuals think about their successes and failures. Examples discussed in the book include Tiger Woods and Coaches Bobby Bowden and Mike Martin of the Florida State Seminoles. It includes a self-test to identify the reader's causal reasoning style with regard to: 1.) how the individual thinks about ... more »his or her own outcomes and 2.) how the individual thinks about the reasons for the successes and failures of others. The book offers a description of sixteen different casual reasoning styles and offers guidelines for changing causal reasoning patterns in both the self-and others to optimize personal and organizational success. The book also addresses current leadership issues from the perspective of causal reasoning. Topics discussed include motivation, emotional intelligence, oganizational aggression, performance appraisal, and transformational and transactional leadership« less