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A Bias for Action: How Effective Managers Harness Their Willpower, Achieve Results, and Stop Wasting Time
Written by Heike Bruch and Sumantra Ghoshal
Narrated by Janet Metzger
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In A Bias for Action, Sumantra Ghoshal and Heike Bruch reveal that only ten percent of managers act purposefully to get truly important work done. A Bias for Action shows that great managers produce results not by motivating others, but by engaging their own willpower through a powerful combination of energy and focus. Bruch and Ghoshal provide simple strategies for bolstering individual willpower and action-taking abilities, and explore ways to marshal the willpower of others to encourage collective action.
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