Peter Economy, best-selling business author, ghostwriter, developmental editor, and publishing consultant, shares how toxic personalities impact a business. Learn how to identify these team members and eradicate or neutralize them to improve the organization's culture.
Peter Economy
Peter Economy is a best-selling business author, ghostwriter, developmental editor, and publishing consultant with more than 80 books to his credit (with more than 2 million copies sold), including Everything I Learned About Life I Learned in Dance Class by Abby Lee Miller, Leading Through Uncertainty: How Umpqua Bank Emerged from the Great Recession Better and Stronger than Ever by Ray Davis, Managing For Dummies, Leadership Ensemble: Lessons in Collaborative Management from the World's Only Conductorless Orchestra, The Management Bible, and many more.
He writes columns on leadership and management for Inc.com (The Leadership Guy) and has also served as Associate Editor for Leader to Leader magazine -- published by the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute in New York City -- since 2001. Peter taught MGT 453: Creativity and Innovation as a lecturer at San Diego State University, is on the National Advisory Council of The Art of Science Learning, and is a founding member of the board of SPORTS for Exceptional Athletes.
A graduate of Stanford University, Peter has worked closely with some of the nation's top business thinkers, including Jim Collins, Frances Hesselbein, Peter Senge, David Whyte, Kellie McElhaney, Marshall Goldsmith, Jack Trout, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Gary Hirshberg, Peter Georgescu, Guy Kawasaki, William Taylor, Jim Kilts, Jean Lipman-Blumen, Ken Blanchard, and many others.
