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Article: Just enough anxiety: the hidden driver of business success.(bookshelf)(Book review)
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- Financial Executive
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- June 1, 2008
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Just Enough Anxiety: The Hidden Driver of Business Success.
By Robert H. Rosen. Portfolio, 258 pages. $24.95.
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Pyschologists are probably better equipped than most mortals to detect and treat anxiety, so it's appropriate that author Robert H. Rosen is a former Pyschologists who now works with business leaders as chairman and CEO of consulting firm Healthy Companies International.
The thesis of Just Enough Anxiety seems relatively simple: there is a right level of anxiety in a company for growth and performance, and leaders should strive for that rather than accept the bromide that stress is a bad thing and should ...