Executive Presence, Second Edition

The Art of Commanding Respect Like a CEO

By: Harrison Monarth

Narrated by: Harrison Monarth

Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins

Publisher's summary

Be the kind of leader that other leaders envy by strategically harnessing the extraordinary power of perception.

One of today's most in-demand leadership consultants, Harrison Monarth, has coached executives and CEOs in various industries, from technology, medicine and law, to hospitality, and consumer products. They have come from companies as large and wide-ranging as Hewlett-Packard, P&G, General Motors, Deloitte Consulting, PepsiCo, and Standard and Poor's.

Monarth has now updated his classic groundbreaking guide to give you the edge on the competition in today's dog-eat-dog business landscape.

Building an executive presence is about being in control of your emotions when you're under stress. It's about knowing yourself well enough to clearly see the impact and influence you have on others. It's about managing your behaviors so you always foster trust and credibility. It's about leaving absolutely no doubt about the value you contribute to others and your organization. And it's about actively monitoring and managing your reputation to achieve important outcomes.

Monarth takes you step-by-step through the process of building your personal brand as the kind of leader everyone trusts to do the right thing at the right time - and as the one person people automatically seek out to lead them through the most challenging situations.

There's no replacement for basic leadership talent and skills. But what makes someone a top-tier leader - those who take their organization from a solid industry player to the unchallenged industry frontrunner - is the ability to harness the power of perception to engage stakeholders at any level and make things happen. Executive Presence delivers everything you need to stand out among the competition at every turn in your career.

©2019 Harrison Monarth (P)2019 McGraw Hill-Ascent Audio

Tone of the writing doesn’t have executive presence

If the tone and writing style of this book were an executive at your company, it wouldn’t have great executive presence—according to the definitions in this book: way too wordy, lists upon lists of recommendations, lacking focus. It really wants to be a textbook that you go back and reference to get specific advice, and not a book that read cover-to-cover. The points the book makes are fair and good suggestions for managers. My complaint has more to do with how it feels that the author ported the entire set of playbooks from their consulting business to book form and didn’t take the time to “write a shorter letter,” leaving it as an exercise to the reader to identify the most important takeaways.