CEO Excellence
The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest
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Narrated by:
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Patricia Rodriguez
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Written by:
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Carolyn Dewar
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Scott Keller
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Vikram Malhotra
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New York Times Bestseller
Wall Street Journal Bestseller
From the world’s most influential management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, this is an insight-packed, revelatory look at how the best CEOs do their jobs based on extensive interviews with today’s most successful corporate leaders—including chiefs at Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, General Motors, and Sony.
Being a CEO at any of the world’s largest companies is among the most challenging roles in business. Billions, and even trillions, are at stake—and the fates of tens of thousands of employees often hang in the balance. Yet, even when “can’t miss” high-achievers win the top job, very few excel. Thirty percent of Fortune 500 CEOs last fewer than three years, and two out of five new CEOs are perceived to be failing within eighteen months.
For those who shoulder the burden of being the one on whom everyone counts, a manual for excellence is sorely needed.
To identify the 21st century’s best CEOs, the authors of CEO Excellence started with a pool of over 2400 public company CEOs. Extensive screening distilled that group into an elite corps, sixty-seven of whom agreed to in-depth, multi-hour interviews. Among those sharing their views: Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan Chase), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Reed Hastings (Netflix), Kazuo Hirai (Sony), Ken Chenault (American Express), Mary Barra (GM), and Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (Nestlé).
What came out of those frank, no-holds-barred conversations is a rich array of mindsets and actions that deliver outsized performance. Compelling, practical, and unprecedented in scope, CEO Excellence is a treasure trove of wisdom from today’s most elite business leaders.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2022 Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller and Vikram Malhotra (P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton LimitedYou may also enjoy...
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Insightful for aspiring leaders
I enjoyed listening to this book, as a aspiring leader I found the chapters to be insightful with ideas and strategies from the best CEOs in the world. If you read plenty of leadership books before, there are ideas in the book that you might have seen/heard before, in that sense you're not going to pick up much "new" concepts. You are however going to hear how other CEOs handled the challenges or issues mentioned in the book, which still provides valuable insights in my opinion, and offer clear and organized strategies that you can implement in your organization or at the very least giving yourself a head start for when you become a CEO or leader in your company/organization. It's a nice listen.
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