Secrets to success, as told by a leadership expert with decades of experience
If you've hit an unexpected roadblock or want to develop your interpersonal skills for growth, look no further: “Flexing” is the key to taking the reins of your personal growth and development. <The Power of Flexing> is a comprehensive toolset of practical methodologies for you to maintain a growth-oriented mindset in life and work, and a shortcut to realizing your best self. Ashford’s novel and practical guide to growth is the solution that will help you bring yourself to this change. Whether individual or organizational, those looking to maximize their capabilities will find their guide in this book.
Susan (Sue) Ashford received her MS and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University, and is currently serving as the Michael and Susan Jandernoa Professor in the Management and Organizations group at the University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business. After serving as a professor for 8 years in Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, she joined the faculty at University of Michigan in 1991. She served as the Ross school’s Senior Associate Dean from 1998 – 2002, the Associate Dean for Leadership Development Programming from 2007 – 2010, the faculty director of the Executive MBA program from 2002 - 2012, and the Area Chair for the Management and Organizations group from 2014 - 2021.
Sue has served as an Associate Editor for the <Academy of Management Journal> and currently serves on its editorial board. In 2002, Sue was named a Fellow of the Academy of Management, recognizing the top 1% of scholars in a world-wide professional association of nearly 20,000 professors and practitioners interested in improving management scholarship, education, and practice. The Academy of Management also awarded her the prestigious Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management in 2017. In 2020, Sue won the Lifetime Achievement award offered by the Organizational Behavior division of the Academy of Management.
Sue’s passion is using her teaching and research work to help people to be maximally effective in their work settings, with an emphasis on self-leadership, proactivity, change from below, and leadership and its development. She teaches at the Ross School, focusing on negotiation skills, and also teaches Ascending to the C-suite program for Inforum, a professional organization committed to Women's careers in Michigan, and the Leading Women Executives program in Chicago.
Her research has been published in a variety of outlets, including the: <Academy of Management Review>, <Academy of Management Journal>, <Administrative Science Quarterly>, <Strategic Management Journal>, and the <Journal of Applied Psychology>. Her research has been summarized as advice for managers in the <Harvard Business Review>, the <Harvard Business Review> blog, the <Washington Post>, and the <New York Magazine>. <The Conversation> recommended her work as a piece of advice to managers, while her research on gig workers was cited heavily in Adam Grant’s podcast <Work Life> and Stewart D. Friedman’s podcast <The Work and Life>.
Kim Jeonghye graduated from Hanyang University with a degree in chemistry and worked in Sang Eun Lease. Kim then went on to complete an SLP program for non-English speakers of other languages at Community College of Philadelphia and studied early childhood education at Columbia College in Virginia. Kim is presently working as a translator under the Barun Media Company. Translated works include <What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture>, <The Art of Leadership>, <Golden Rules>, <Relationomics>, <Think Like Amazon>, <Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life>, <The Amazon Way>, <The Amazon Way on IoT>, <Weapons of Math Destruction>, <Designing Your Life>, <Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World>, <Black Sheep: The Hidden Benefits of Being Bad>, <Thinkers 50 Leadership>, <Thinkers 50: Future Thinkers>, <Good Leaders Ask Great Questions>, <The Magic Ladder to Success>, <Harvard Intelligence>, <The Opposable Mind>, <The Three Laws of Performance>, <Maximum Influence>.
