Self Esteem at Work: How Confident People Make Powerful Companies [Paperback]

Nathaniel Branden (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 21, 1998

In his latest work, renowned psychologist, author, and consultant Nathaniel Branden--father of the self-esteem movement-shows you how high self-esteem is becoming a prime determinant of both organizational and personal success in the Information Age. Get the basics on:
* Stirring creativity through self-esteem
* Establishing a work culture that builds self-esteem
* Boosting communication skills . . . and much more!
"Nathaniel Branden is a giant. His work integrating innovation and entrepreneurship with self-esteem is the cutting edge, and shows how the qualities of high self-esteem are the same attributes needed for succes in today's environment."
-Ken Blanchard, coauthor, The One Minute Manager

"I want to personally thank Nathaniel Branden for adding a million dollars to our sales this year, which I don't believe we would have had without his ideas triggering new thinking . . . ."
-- Thomas E. Trumble, president and CEO, Leanin' Tree

The 21-week, self-directed development program at the end of the book is essential for employees at every level of an organization.

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In this, his latest work, renowned psychologist, author, and consultant Nathaniel Branden—father of the self-esteem movement—explains how high self-esteem is becoming a prime determinant of both organizational and personal success in the Information Age. He argues that only organizations staffed with creative, confident, and highly adaptive people—traits built on self-esteem—will be able to meet the unique challenges of today's business environment. Branden then shows how the development of high self-esteem can be used to enhance a company's leadership, management practices, and the ability to innovate and sustain profitability—and to advance one's own career. He closes with a self-directed, twenty-one-week improvement program any individual can follow.

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In this, his latest work, renowned psychologist, author, and consultant Nathaniel Branden--father of the self-esteem movement--explains how high self-esteem is becoming a prime determinant of both organizational and personal success in the Information Age. He argues that only organizations staffed with creative, confident, and highly adaptive people--traits built on self-esteem--will be able to meet the unique challenges of today's business environment. Branden then shows how the development of high self-esteem can be used to enhance a company's leadership, management practices, and the ability to innovate and sustain profitability--and to advance one's own career. He closes with a self-directed, twenty-one-week improvement program any individual can follow.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (July 21, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787940011
• ISBN-13: 978-0787940010
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #882,322 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HAS THE POTENTIAL OF OFFERING YOU PROFOUND PERSONAL GROWTH., April 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Self Esteem at Work: How Confident People Make Powerful Companies (Paperback)

Branden shines a bright light on how critical self-esteem is to individual health, happiness and success in the workplace. Using a highly accessible writing style, he examines the nature and role of self-esteem, with special emphasis on its link to effective leadership. Managers will find enormous value in these pages. Branden's examination of the high self-esteem leader and high self-esteem management is as penetrating as it is clearly and tersely expressed.

Central to Branden's insights for leading and managing are six practices (ways of living) essential to building self-esteem: being at a high level of consciousness, self-acceptance and acceptance of others, self-responsibility, self-assertiveness, purposefulness and personal integrity. This book is geared to self development-for helping anyone develop the qualities that underlie a healthy sense of self and effectiveness in living. Branden provides the reader with a 21 week personal development program that has enormous potential, provided you approach it with commitment and sincerity!

Branden's ideas offer the prospect of profound personal growth. The implications of his thinking for creating a highly effective organization should be thought about deeply by leaders. If you are embarked on organizational change, you should read this book before charging forward. Recommended. Reviewed by Gerry Stern, founder, Stern & Associates, author of Stern's Sourcefinder The Master Directory to HR and Business Management Information & Resources, Stern's CyberSpace SourceFinder, and the Compensation and Benefits SourceFinder.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The essential thinking to what really drives business succes, January 1, 1999

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David Rich ([e-mail]) (Massachusetts, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Self Esteem at Work: How Confident People Make Powerful Companies (Paperback)

At last, this brief book is an accessable look into what really drives success in business. Branden's work gets to the core of what motivates human beings, what we need from the work experience, how to get it, and how to foster it in others. One could easily throw out every other "how to achieve success at work" or "how to lead" book published over the past 20 years in favor of the wisdom just dripping from the pages of this one. It is perfect for everyone who works, but especially valuable for anyone who manages, and absolutely essential for anyone who leads. Business leaders are often put off by anything psychologically oriented in favor of management fads dressed in the more quantifiable language of business school affiliated consultants. Yet, we discard one such fad after the other when the promised results fail to materialize. All the while, the real answers have been right under our noses in all of Branden's previous books. Finally, under the branding umbrella of leadership guru Warren Bennis, Branden and Josey-Bass publishers have wisely repackaged Branden's technologies (developed over nearly 40 years) specifically for the business audience. Because this book is brief, it is a great starting point for time-pressured executives. Take it on the plane! Then, use it as a way into Branden's more detailed works for the fuller course: "The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem"; and "Taking Responsibility," for starters.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Branden has the answer to business success., October 6, 1998

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Stephen Chandler (Bloomfield Hills Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Self Esteem at Work: How Confident People Make Powerful Companies (Paperback)

British philosopher Colin Wilson calls Nathaniel Branden the foremost psychologist of our age and this wonderful book confirms that evaluation. Branden explains the driving force behind all business innovation and productivity and then gives you a practical process to build your own self-esteem at work. This book should be required reading for anyone in a business that has two or more people in it.