E. Ted Prince

The Three Financial Styles of Very Successful Leaders: Strategic Approaches to Identifying the Growth Drivers of Every Company E. Ted Prince

In Prince's The Three Financial Styles of Very Successful Leaders, nationally acclaimed leadership expert and executive coach Ted Prince introduces the breakthrough concept of the "financial signature," a set of personal financial traits that inform every leader's decision making.

Drawing upon his groundbreaking research into the behaviors of more than 130 corporate heads, as well as his two decades as a CEO and member of more than twenty corporate boards, he

• Identifies the relationship between a leader's financial signature and his company's financial and valuation performance, products, market, strategy, and technology
• Using present day leaders including Steve Jobs, Lou Gerstner, Pierre Omidyar, Sam Walton, Bill Gates, and Sandy Weill, Prince identifies different leadership styles
• Case studies illustrate the key role financial signature has played in many of the business world's most sensational successes and failures
• Self-Assessment exercises, give students the opportunity to profile themselves along several different dimensions associated with leaders and the leadership process. These self-assessments provide readers with an opportunity to take a look in the mirror to identify your students' financial signature, understand how it impacts their firm's financial performance and valuation, and shape strategies to take utmost advantage of their strengths