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Self Esteem at Work: How Confident People Make Powerful Companies

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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.

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.

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.

Branden delves into the shadowy, subtle but profoundly crucial realm of the self. He takes us on an intriguing journey to reveal the power of self-esteem in determining psychological health, well-being and success in the workplace. Using a highly accessible writing style, the author examines the nature and role of self-esteem, with special emphasis on its vital link to effective leadership. The discussion of leadership and self-esteem is penetrating and perceptive. The book is geared to self development. It includes a 21 week personal development program that is straightforward and challenging. Branden's book opens the way for personal self discovery and growth and, for the receptive and perservering reader, offers great value.