Ware / Michaels / Primer Investment Leadership

Building a Winning Culture for Long-Term Success
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-471-47990-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Finance Editions

A comprehensive guide to best practices within the investmentindustry
Investment Leadership provides readers with the tools to understandthe leadership factors that contribute to sustainable growth;diagnose their firm's culture and understand why it is important;and replicate best practices from leading firms. With the help ofdiagnostic tools, practical advice from industry leaders, andreal-life case studies, this book sets out to explain what is wrongwith the status quo and reveal the secrets of long-term success inthe investment industry.
James W. Ware, CFA, currently works as a consultant to moneymanagers. He is the coauthor of The Leadership Genius of George W.Bush (0-471-42006-9). Beth Michaels has worked with manyorganizations, including Chevrolet Motors and the McDonald'sCorporation. Dale Primer has worked with business executives frommore than 700 individual businesses in over eighty-five separateindustries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ware, Jim

Michaels, Beth

Primer, Dale

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE: Foundation Pieces: Cornerstones of Long-Term Success.
CHAPTER 1: Leadership and Culture in the InvestmentIndustry.
CHAPTER 2: Core Values.
CHAPTER 3: Vision: Where Are We Going?
CHAPTER 4: Strong Cultures.
PART TWO: Assessment Tools: Putting Numbers to the SoftStuff.
CHAPTER 5: Leader Types.
CHAPTER 6: Measuring Culture.
CHAPTER 7: Diagnosing Culture by Measuring Values.
CHAPTER 8: Leadership and Trust.
PART THREE: Getting Practical: Specific Tools forImprovement.
CHAPTER 9: Ambitious Goals and Implementation.
CHAPTER 10: The Innovative Culture.
CHAPTER 11: Compensation and Ownership.
CHAPTER 12: Homegrown Leadership.
PART FOUR: Putting It All Together: Case Study.
CHAPTER 13: The Best of the Best: Ariel Capital.
CHAPTER 14: Continuous Improvement.
PART FIVE: Other Audiences.
CHAPTER 15: Consultant's View..
CHAPTER 16: Stock Picker's Corner: Rounding up theUn-Usual Suspects.
NOTES.
INDEX.

Über Autor(innen)

JIM WARE, whose credits include working as director ofinvestment planning and strategy at Allstate Insurance andinstructing at Keller Graduate School of Management, has overtwenty years of experience in the investment industry. Ware, a CFA,now works as a consultant to money managers and speaks to financialcommunities across the United States and abroad. He is the authorof The Psychology of Money: An Investment Manager's Guide toBeating the Market and coauthor of The Leadership Genius of GeorgeW. Bush: 10 Commonsense Lessons from the Commander in Chief, bothpublished by Wiley. He is also the author of various articles andpapers that have been printed in publications such as the FinancialAnalysts Journal. Ware received his MBA from the University ofChicago.
BETH MICHAELS has collaborated with senior executives andsenior management teams throughout the United States, Canada, andEurope. During her fifteen-year career she has worked with manyorganizations, including Chevrolet Motors, Accenture, the PeaceCorps, Harris Bank, Pfizer, the McDonald's Corporation, andJohnson & Johnson. Michaels received her master 's degreefrom the University of Illinois.
DALE PRIMER has worked with business executives from morethan 700 individual businesses in over eighty-five separateindustries. He has advised companies such as AT&T, WasteManagement, Kraft General Foods, Harris Bank, University ofIllinois, Abbott Labs, Bank One, and the McDonald'sCorporation. Primer's investment experience includes threeyears of trading on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade and theChicago Mercantile Exchange.