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About the Author

Dr Dietmar Sternad is an award-winning management professor who teaches coaching skills for graduate students. He holds degrees from Austria, Slovenia and the UK, and is an alumnus of GLOCOLL (Harvard Business School) and IMTA (CEEMAN). Dietmar has extensive experience as CEO of media companies, as well as in executive education, coaching, and consulting. He has published numerous research articles, case studies, and textbooks (e.g. Effective Management: Developing Yourself, Others and Organization, published by Macmillan International Higher Education). As a passionate management educator, he aims to create highly engaging learning experiences and learning materials that help his students and other people to become better leaders who can make a difference in the world. Dietmar is also the founder and CEO of econcise, an internationally active publisher of concise, approachable, and affordable management and leadership textbooks and ebooks.

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