Schell combines her research with findings from other studies to map the strategies, personality predispositions, and mood-coping capabilities for making it to the top of the corporate ladder—and for staying there. Nearly 400 of today's corporate leaders reveal their secrets for success and the stress and personality and mood disorders that go along with it. The result is an authoritative insight into the people who made it in today's corporate world, and a bold reconfirmation that life at the top is not always worth coveting.
Schell's book is written for present-day corporate leaders and for those seeking to become leaders and is designed to help understand the special traits one needs to become successful. Schell reports in detail on corporate leaders' stress-coping strategies, influence strategies, personality dispositions, the ways they cope with their mood swings, and how they see themselves performing their own compensation negotiations. Managers and management aspirants, specialists in organizational psychology, and human resource executives will find Schell's book both enlightening and cautionary.
| I | On Becoming a Successful Corporate Leader | 1 |
| 1 | The Drive to Succeed: What We Know about Corporate Leaders, Geniuses, and Other Creative Leaders | 3 |
| 2 | The Path to Success: Work and Personal Stressors of the Rich and Famous | 21 |
| 3 | The Path to Corporate Success: Strategies for Getting to the Top | 53 |
| 4 | The Path to Corporate Success: Personality Traits and Behavioral Profiles of Those Who Have Made It to the Top | 85 |
| 5 | The Path to Corporate Success: Normal Moods and Mood Disorders Accompanying Those Who Have Made the Climb to the Top | 113 |
| 6 | The Path to Corporate Success: How Status, Income, Perks, and Accoutrements Motivate Those to Reach for the Top | 149 |
| II | An Empirical Look at How Successful Corporate Leaders See Themselves | 171 |
| 7 | Corporate Leaders: A Descriptive Profile of Their Stress Levels, Influence Strategies, and Earnings | 173 |
| 8 | Corporate Leaders: An In-Depth Analysis of Their Personality and Behavior Patterns | 197 |
| 9 | Corporate Leaders: A Revealing Disclosure of Their Long-Term Moods and Mood Disorders | 215 |
| 10 | Corporate Leaders: How They Would Likely Place on the Trustworthy-Transitional-Toxic Leader Scale | 231 |
| Annotated Bibliography | 239 | |
| Index | 243 |
Overview
Schell combines her research with findings from other studies to map the strategies, personality predispositions, and mood-coping capabilities for making it to the top of the corporate ladder—and for staying there. Nearly 400 of today's corporate leaders reveal their secrets for success and the stress and personality and mood disorders that go along with it. The result is an authoritative insight into the people who made it in today's corporate world, and a bold reconfirmation ...