August 7, 2008 Archives

Impact Executives publishes and emails business book reviews regularly throughout the year, in our time-short lives, many of us seemingly find it hard to read a book cover to cover, so they are extremely popular both with our clients and our Interim Managers.

The last one that we published...

What makes Ego our greatest asset (or most expensive liability?)

In these challenging times your ego could be one of the tools you can use to help you power through or one that stops you.

In their book Egonomics - what makes ego our greatest asset (or most expensive liability) David Marcum and Steven Smith address the delicate and subjective nature of ego.

“Approximately 63% of business people say ego negatively impacts work performance on an hourly or daily basis while an additional approx. 31% say it happens weekly…”

Surprising as it may sound, many people do not have enough ego, and that leads to insecurity and apathy that paralyse cultures and leaders…”

“The crucial point is when ego is not balanced it doesn’t turn our strengths into polar opposites into close counterfeits. We might lose our lives when we lose control of ego but we can lose a lot: trust, respect, relationships, influence, talent, careers, clients, and market share and occasionally we might let ego weaken our talents despite our qualifications, expertise, charisma, track record or remarkable ability…”

Stephen R. Covey, author of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People states “What a brilliant and vitally important book! So true and so pragmatically necessary”

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, PhD, Professor Harvard Business School: “How very interesting and unique approach to helping people learn to steer their behaviour more productively in the workplace. It is certain to be widely used…”

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