What the best CEOs know : 7 exceptional leaders and their lessons for transforming any business / Jeffrey A. Krames.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krames, Jeffrey A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chief executive officers--United States--Case studies.

Chief executive officers.

Leadership--United States--Case studies.

Leadership.

Decision making.

United States.

Decision making--United States--Case studies.

Management--United States--Case studies.

Management.

Organizational change--United States--Case studies.

Organizational change.

Success in business--United States--Case studies.

Success in business.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

vi, 250 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill, 2003.

Summary:

What the Best CEOs Know looks at the careers of this generation's top CEOs, examining the beliefs and actions that propelled each to the top of the corporate world. By exploring what they did, why they did it, and what might have happened had they done it differently, this remarkable book turns the wisdom, strategies, and tactics of these business-world icons into a step-by-step handbook for the pursuit and achievement of breakthrough corporate leadership -- at any level, in any industry. What the Best CEOs Know goes beyond theory and guesswork to look at how seven contemporary business icons carved their own paths to the pinnacles of corporate achievement. This no-nonsense guide isolates and examines the specific skills and styles that contributed to each CEO's well-documented achievements.

Along with interviews and expert analyses, What the Best CEOs Know features interactive What Would (the CEO) Do? case studies, Assessing Your CEO Quotient self-tests, and other innovative features to help you apply these traits and strategies to your own career. Contributions from CEOs and leading business theorists, including Philip Kotler, examine the CEOs from different viewpoints and add insights to particular concepts. Each chapter concludes with additional suggestions for adapting and implementing industry-specific ideas to improve your own organization. Bestselling business author Jeffrey Krames is renowned for identifying the essence of leadership and communicating it in terms that are easy to both understand and apply. In What the Best CEOs Know, he reveals the defining traits, strategies, and accomplishments of today's captains of corporate innovation -- and delivers a vastly entertaining yet comprehensively researched framework for breakthrough success in virtually any industry or environment.

Contents:

The exceptional seven and the traits that defined them

Place the customer at the epicenter of the business model : Michael Dell and the art of the customer

Create an authentic learning culture : how Jack Welch converts learning into results

Focus on solutions : Lou Gerstner on creating a customer-obsessed IBM

Prepare the organization for drastic change : Andy Grove on strategic inflection points

Harness the intellect of every employee : Bill Gates on creating a knowledge-based organization

Create a performance-driven culture : Herb Kelleher on the importance of creating a family-like culture

Learn from competitors, but remain faithful to the vision : how Sam Walton's vision created the world's largest company.

ISBN:

0071382402

OCLC:

50920737