Reviews"Breaks it all down...a master class in leadership...knowing the six mindsets of the most visionary businesses could mean the difference between sinking and swimming for business leaders." -- Business Insider, "Pulls back the curtain on how some of the world's greatest business leaders have achieved success...Valuable lessons." -- Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO, and cofounder of Blackstone, "Remarkable...Any smart CEO looking to not just survive but thrive would do well to read and heed this book's insights." -- David Rubenstein, co-founder and co-executive chairman of The Carlyle Group and New York Times bestselling author of How to Lead, "This is a remarkable book by three top-notch business gurus. Vik, Scott, and Carolyn have taken a plunge into the minds of the world's finest CEOs, reached deep into their psyches, retrieved the rarest pearls of wisdom, and strung them together nicely in a most readable narrative. This is not just a book but a veritable guide to becoming a complete leader and leading a complete life. A must read for everyone in the world of ideas and enterprises." - Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries
Dewey Edition23/eng/20220308
Dewey Decimal658.4/092
SynopsisNew Y ork Times Bestseller * Wall Street Journal Bestseller From McKinsey & Company, the world's most influential management consulting firm, comes CEO Excellence, an insight-packed leadership book that reveals how the best CEOs think and act--based on interviews with elite leaders from Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, General Motors, Sony, and more. Being a CEO at a major company is one of the toughest executive roles--Fortune?500 CEOs often face massive stakes, yet many fail early: 30% don't last three years, and 40% are deemed ineffective within eighteen months. What separates successful CEOs from the rest? The authors began with over 2,400 public-company CEOs, narrowed to an elite sixty-seven who participated in multi-hour interviews. Among them: Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan Chase), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Reed Hastings (Netflix), Kazuo Hirai (Sony), Ken Chenault (American Express), Mary Barra (GM), Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (Nestlé), and others--offering rich insight into CEO best practices, leadership strategy, and business execution. Their candid conversations and McKinsey's data reveal how the top CEOs use core mindsets and signature practices--across strategy, culture, talent, stakeholder engagement, board relations, and personal effectiveness--to deliver extraordinary results. Practical, unprecedented in scope, and essential for leaders at every level, CEO Excellence is a management manual grounded in real-world CEO experience and leadership innovation., New ?York ?Times Bestseller - Wall ?Street ?Journal Bestseller From McKinsey & Company, the world's most influential management consulting firm, comes CEO Excellence, an insight-packed leadership book that reveals how the best CEOs think and act--based on interviews with elite leaders from Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, General Motors, Sony, and more. Being a CEO at a major company is one of the toughest executive roles--Fortune?500 CEOs often face massive stakes, yet many fail early: 30% don't last three years, and 40% are deemed ineffective within eighteen months. What separates successful CEOs from the rest? The authors began with over 2,400 public-company CEOs, narrowed to an elite sixty-seven who participated in multi-hour interviews. Among them: Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan Chase), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Reed Hastings (Netflix), Kazuo Hirai (Sony), Ken Chenault (American Express), Mary Barra (GM), Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (Nestlé), and others--offering rich insight into CEO best practices, leadership strategy, and business execution. Their candid conversations and McKinsey's data reveal how the top CEOs use core mindsets and signature practices--across strategy, culture, talent, stakeholder engagement, board relations, and personal effectiveness--to deliver extraordinary results. Practical, unprecedented in scope, and essential for leaders at every level, CEO Excellence is a management manual grounded in real-world CEO experience and leadership innovation.