Allan Cox
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Business Services |
| Occupation | CEO, Allan Cox & Associates, Inc. |
| Location | Chicago, IL, United States |
| Introduction | Allan Cox, CEO Counselor & Poet-Blogger-delivers themes of personal development. His underlying conviction is that our central challenge in organizations is not making better leaders of our people but making better people of our leaders. He's just published his audiobook, "WHOA! Are They Glad You're in Their Lives?" His central work, apparent in all his books, is highly collaborative: CEO Counsel, CEO/Top Team Relations, Corporate Mission as a Basis for Strategy and Ascertaining True Corporate Purpose. |
| Interests | Social Psychology, Fine Dining, Great Wines, Reading, Writing, Exercise, Leadership, St. Louis Cardinals baseball. |
| Favorite Movies | Zorba the Greek, David and Lisa, To Kill a Mockingbird, Close Encounters of The Third kind, Stalag 17, Seabiscuit, Million Dollar Baby, Cider House Rules, Memphis Belle, Slingblade, Monster, A Mighty Heart, Mrs. Paltry at the Claremont, Crazy Heart. |
| Favorite Music | rock, classical, instrumental jazz, country, some easy listening, anything by Van Morrison or John Fogarty, Springsteen's "Dublin Live" video is a masterpiece, Baroque horns, Vivaldi and Schubert's Ninth are special classical favorites. |
| Favorite Books | Martin Buber's I and Thou, anything by Joseph Campbell, Tao Te Ching, Book of Job, Rilke's poetry translations by Stephen Mitchell. A Thousand Names for Joy by Byron Katie--she's a modern day prophet; Religious Literacy by Stephen Prothero, Power vs Force by David Hawkins, Colman Barks's The Soul of Rumi, Wally Olins's On Brand, Ian McEwan's novel Atonement, Sidney Poitier's autobiography The Measure of a Man |