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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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Janet Metzger, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, has performed as a stage, television, voice, and film actor and as a jazz vocalist in hotels and supper clubs. For five years she was the voice of Headline News, now HLN, during which time she also promoted features and news stories for CNN and CNN International. She is a graduate of Florida State University. Heike Bruch is a professor at the Institute for Leadership and Human Resource Management at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, and the founder and research director of the Organizational Energy Program (OEP). Sumantra Ghoshal (1948-2004) served as a professor of strategic and international management at the London Business School, and was the founding dean of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad.

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