CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest

three dimensions: 1. The movement from a hands-on doer, to a manager, to a leader, and ultimately to a coach/mentor of others; 2. From a functional specialist to a general manager, back to a functional specialist, and ultimately to a strategy and culture “conductor;” and 3. From having a passionate belief in the primacy of oneself, to having a beli

Having a jobs-focused organization, the CEOs we interviewed for this book tell us, leads to four categories of clear benefit: Enable distributed decision making with clarity of purpose—employees throughout the organization are empowered to make good jobs-focused decisions and to be autonomous and innovative. Align resources against what matters mos

The critical difference between exceptional and average managers—the exceptional managers motivate, develop, and lead people even though they’ve got to drive the business.