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Memoirs of a Recovering Autocrat

Revealing Insights for Managing the Autocrat in All of Us

By Richard Hallstein

By Richard Hallstein

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Category: Business

Hardcover $17.95

Mar 07, 1995 | ISBN 9781881052357

Memoirs of a Recovering Autocrat by Richard Hallstein
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About Memoirs of a Recovering Autocrat

Reveals how to immediately improve profits with over 100 innovative profit building ideas
We all want to be in control-of our jobs, our relationships, our lives. However, the autocratic behaviors stemming from our desire for control are proving less and less effective in today's more participative organizational cultures.

In Memoirs of a Recovering Autocrat, Richard Hallstein speaks to all of us. Through revealing anecdotes and personal examples, he helps us see the many ways in which we manifest our constant struggle for control and thereby make our work and our lives more difficult for ourselves and those around us. And he offers practical help for learning more participative styles of managing and living a more joyous and satisfying life, both personal and professional.

Written with an intimacy rare in business books, the twenty-one vignettes in this enlightening and entertaining confession evoke twinges of recognition in all of us. Through Richard Hallstein's experiences, we recognize our own autocratic behaviors-encouraging competition instead of collaboration; demanding perfection from ourselves and others; hanging on to power instead of sharing it; even surrounding ourselves with people just like ourselves in order to avoid conflict. His prescription for overcoming the autocrat within us not only creates new possibilities for getting a job done, but releases us from having to know everything, do everything, and control everything.

Product Details

Category: Business

Hardcover | $17.95
Published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Mar 07, 1995 | 168 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9781881052357

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Table Of Contents

Introduction: Relief From Being in Charge All of the Time
Once Begun, the Journey Never Ends
A Power Greater Than Myself
The Case for Incompetence
Casting Light on Our Dark Side
Struggles with Self-Importance
The Courage for Necessary Messes
A Bias for No Action
Nourishing the Spirit
The Addictions That Drive Us
On Being Enlightened but Not Evolved
Using the Gift of Power
Putting People to the Test
Information as an Ally
The Tao of Homogeneity
Eliminating Soul Pollution
Trained for Show
The Big Wheel Syndrome
The Propensity to be "Dead Serious"
Competition versus Collaboration
The Problem with the Bootstrap Theory
Autocrats Anonymous

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