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Gorilla in the Cockpit offers a revolutionary way to understand megaproject failures. It opens the black box to reveal the hidden drivers of project crashes. The root causes cannot be found in traditional project management books. They are neither technical nor financial. They are human.

Facing organizational silos or resistance to change? Stakeholders pulling in different directions? Can’t align, get real buy-in, or jumpstart implementation? The problem is traditional planning no longer guarantees success. Rapid change, uncertainty, new technologies, and a flatter world call for a new approach. The award-winning Strategy-In-Action tells how companies ended the long-standing divorce between planners and implementers.

Frustrated by endless indecisive meetings, lack of alignment, mistrust, blame games, turf wars, toxic colleagues and/or weak performance? All of these are a result of bad communication. And effective communication can solve them. Dr. Zweifel, former CEO, Columbia leadership professor, and award-winning author, has trained and coached over 5,000 executives to communicate effectively. Now he unpacks the toolbox he developed over three decades of working with CEOs, C-level executives, and even heads of state like Nelson Mandela to reveal the communication secrets of winners. 

Leadership is in crisis. In the rough seas of a borderless economy, the Internet, and outsourcing in turbulent markets, a seismic shift has changed the game. The days of the Great Man - whether a Churchill or Kennedy, even a Gates or Welch - are numbered. Virtually anyone can lead now, but how do you breed principled leaders for the 21st century? Is leadership a matter of DNA, culture, or coaching?

iCoach is not just a book, but a system refined over 35 years of coaching CEOs and other leaders to meet strategic imperatives. Even if you stay in your current job - and especially if you're the CEO - iCoach gives you access to being a successful coach. iCoach is your road map to real power - by unleashing people. The problem is, we know how to fly a robot to Mars, yet we know next to nothing about empowering people - igniting their productivity. If working with others is a mystery (or a pain) to you, iCoach® is the solution.

Few are prepared for managing across cultures, and the costs of cultural blind spots can spin out of control - from lawsuits to lost opportunities. Forged in the fire of clashing cultures and living on four continents, Dr. Zweifel developed a fool-proof methodology for managing successfully across borders.

Like it or not, all of us are touched by globalization. But few leaders are prepared for working across borders, and the costs of cultural blind-spots can be immense - from lawsuits to lost opportunities. In Culture Clash, Dr. Zweifel gives you the global and intercultural competencies it takes to manage across cultures anywhere in the world.