Book Description
With access to such sporting legends as Michael Jordan, Franz Beckenbauer, and Jonah Lomu and in-depth analysis with the owners and managers, the authors of Peak Performance have been able to unearth the secret organizational and institutional ingredients that take these teams on to a higher level of achievement, and in so doing have created the blueprint for creating a peak performing organization.
Customer Reviews:
very interesting.......2003-11-01
if you love sports, and want to know how those great teams keep on winning, this is your book. i learned a lot about what people dont see in the team; the manager's dedicated work to keep the team victorious. overall, it was a very interesting book, i recommend it to everybody.
An inspring and insightful read........2001-02-03
There a tons of motivational books in the marketplace that use star athletes and winning teams as exemplars. A few inspire but few offer genuine insight. Peak Performance does.The examples come from all parts of the globe.
If you are looking to motivate your team at sport or at the office you should read this book.
Understanding Star Power.......2000-11-29
These authors prove the greats are great because they have purpose, potency, performance skills, and they practice powerfully. You will love reading the inside stories of sports team achievements.
You'll come to understand that the New York Yankees are great, because they demand greatness of themselves decade after decade. (Some trivia, Yankees' Phil Rizzuto's brother was my shoemaker. He was as competent a shoemaker as his brother was a baseball star.)
Again in the stories, you'll see stars focus their talents by stepping up to the bar of challenges they must overcome to achieve their dreams. They practice to create the future they desire and share their dream within a support system. Their potency comes from harmony within, passion within and without,and achievement of the flow state, individually and as a team. And, they perform beyond their endurance, creatively, continually besting themselves.
Bottom line, success is an organized and consistent effort. The great teams constantly ask themselves, "If we can do this today, what can we do tomorrow?"
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Real-world executives reveal how their early experiences have helped them become the best in business, and beyond
How were they raised? What mistakes did they make along the way? What were the adversities they faced? These are just a sampling of key questions top leaders answer in From the Sandbox to the Corner Office. Many of them were spanked as children, including Time Warner's CEO whose parents used a switch from a tree. Others faced major obstacles, such as Ameritrade's CEO who has struggled with stuttering all his life. And many were immigrants who worked their way out of poverty, such as the COO of Cingular who as a young boy came to America from Cuba alone. Based on more than 50 interviews with some of todayâs top corporate executives and leaders from all walks of life, this book offers key lessons for those looking to achieve success in todayâs world of business, nonprofits, and government.
With this book as their guide, readers will learn what it takes to make it to the top and discover that a good resume or an MBA from a leading business school doesnât always help you get there. In this one-of-a-kind book, seasoned executives open up to author Eve Tahmincioglu and reveal both the successes and setbacks faced during their journey. These individuals discuss both the personal and professional experiencesâfrom near-fatal mistakes to the influence of parentsâthat have shaped the way they lead and offer valuable insights that can benefit employees of all levels, from starting managers to CEOs.
Eve Tahmincioglu (Wilmington, DE) is a regular contributor to the New York Times business section and one of the lead writers on "The Boss" column. She has been interviewing executives from a wide range of industries for the bulk of her career.
Customer Reviews:
For anyone who wants to get to the corner office...or not!.......2006-12-24
Eve has done a great job pulling together and organizing a wealth of material from a group of people not easy to get to. I know how hard this is myself - as a fellow contributor to The Times, including the BOSS column for the Sunday business section, and as the author of "Buddha or Bust" [...].
I say this all because I know how hard it is to get personal stories out of top-level executives who are trained, it sometimes seems, to talk in CorporateSpeak. Eve gets them to talk about everything from being spanked to bad bosses, which of course should be a no-no in CorporateLand.
A testament to her ability to capture not only these intimate details but also people's voices, it's hard to tell where the direct quotes end and her narration picks up, so seamless is her storytelling.
The book is organized by subject, so you can go to a section you might be interested in and bypass those you might not care about so much. I also like how she sums up each profile with that CEO's lessons learned in that category. If there is one change for the paperback edition, may I suggest somewhere before Chapter 1 she simply list all the CEOs in alphabetical order and the pages you will find them on.
There is a great mix of both men and women CEO's, and also a wide variety of businesses represented. So we get Pernille Spiers-Lopez of Ikea and Christie Hefner of [...] Enterprises (surprisingly she mostly attributes her success to her mother, only gives one paragraph to her father) and Danny Goldberg of Air America Radio and Terry Lundgren of Federated Department Stores.
I think the opening quote sums up the philosophy of these global business leaders and offers the best reason to buy - and memorize the lessons of -- this book. Says Aldous Huxley, "Experience is not what happens to you: It is what you do with what happens to you."
Wealth of information...........2006-12-05
...on CEOS and how they came to be. This amazing collection of CEO life stories is a true treasure. Its a fun read and allows you to draw your own conclusion as to what drives a human being to strive for that leadership position. The intimate stories Eve manages to draw from these otherwise typically private leaders is invaluable and very entertaining. This book is great for many audiences...young parents, young adults on their way to their own version of success, and anyone, really, just for the individual anectodal stories that are quite interesting. I even gave a copy to my 16 year old. Would highly recommend.
A worthwhile read.......2006-10-28
"From the Sandbox" offers practical tips for the budding executive and for parents who want to establish a positive work ethic and nurturing environment for their kids. The anecdotes offered by the profiled executives are insightful and at times compelling.
Important lessons useful to parents as well as ladder climbers........2006-10-17
This is a great book that takes you inside the real lives of the movers and shakers leading some of the largest organizations in US and the world. It is written in a great style that takes you through some of the most important events and life shaping events of the leaders that it chronicles. I especially enjoyed the chapter that details first jobs, from selling eggs to neighbors, to selling peanuts at Yankee stadium, and the lessons these leaders took away. The author does a great job of telling each story in an engaging way that lets the individual leader's voice come though, while at the same time distilling the lessons contained in a way that makes them useful to everyone. As a parent I would also recomend the book to any one interested in gaining more insight into family dynamics and there effects as one moves though organizations and leadership positions. The first chapter on parenting, which received a bunch of press when USA today wrote a piece on spanking that excerpts some of the CEOs detailed in the book had a bunch of other nuggets that I have found very useful in my home.
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Meet Mike Holmgren, Jon Gruden, John Fox, Andy Reid, and Mike Sherman -- top NFL head coaches whose careers rest on their ability to lead other men to win in the fiercely competitive world of professional football.
Being an NFL coach is the ultimate high-pressure job. The average life span of a coach is two and a half years, so there is an enormous amount of pressure and scrutiny, from demanding owners, millions of fickle fans, and unyielding media. Every Sunday he makes split-second decisions that will not only decide the fate of a game but also his team's season and, ultimately, his own job.
In an extraordinary collaboration with Bob LaMonte, each of these five coaches shares their leadership principles in
Winning the NFL Way. Having spent thousands of hours with these men, LaMonte understands their quirks, superstitions, philosophies, and work ethics. He takes you behind the scenes, where you'll be a fly on the wall in team meetings, on the sidelines, and in the locker room as Holmgren, Gruden, Fox, Reid, and Sherman reveal how to win beyond the X's and O's. You'll find how to pick and choose the right people for an organization. How to communicate with different personalities. How to be an effective disciplinarian. How to develop a vision and execute it. How coaches build trust in their people and win loyalty, overcome adversity, and adapt to change. All while being a person of integrity and high character.
Through their colorful and motivational anecdotes, you'll gain unprecedented insights into the minds of some of the best coaches today and valuable lessons on what it means to be a leader and a champion.
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Meet Mike Holmgren, Jon Gruden, John Fox, Andy Reid, and Mike Sherman -- top NFL head coaches whose careers rest on their ability to lead other men to win in the fiercely competitive world of professional football.
Being an NFL coach is the ultimate high-pressure job. The average life span of a coach is two and a half years, so there is an enormous amount of pressure and scrutiny, from demanding owners, millions of fickle fans, and unyielding media. Every Sunday he makes split-second decisions that will not only decide the fate of a game but also his team's season and, ultimately, his own job.
In an extraordinary collaboration with Bob LaMonte, each of these five coaches shares their leadership principles in
Winning the NFL Way. Having spent thousands of hours with these men, LaMonte understands their quirks, superstitions, philosophies, and work ethics. He takes you behind the scenes, where you'll be a fly on the wall in team meetings, on the sidelines, and in the locker room as Holmgren, Gruden, Fox, Reid, and Sherman reveal how to win beyond the X's and O's. You'll find how to pick and choose the right people for an organization. How to communicate with different personalities. How to be an effective disciplinarian. How to develop a vision and execute it. How coaches build trust in their people and win loyalty, overcome adversity, and adapt to change. All while being a person of integrity and high character.
Through their colorful and motivational anecdotes, you'll gain unprecedented insights into the minds of some of the best coaches today and valuable lessons on what it means to be a leader and a champion.
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Customer Reviews:
Not as engaging as I would have thought.......2007-01-18
The book has a great premise, but the writing manages to ruin it. I wish LaMonte, who is a great agent, would have gotten a good writer to tell his and his clients' stories.
The NFL Way Analysis.......2005-04-27
I would recommend this book to anyone. You don't even really have to know about football. It gives you life lessons, as well as football lessons, and business lessons. These lessons are told by Bob LaMonte and the five head coaches he represents. These coaches include Mike Holmgren, John Grueden, John Fox, Andy Reid, and Mike Sherman. Unlike many other authors, Bob LaMonte has been up close and personal with these coaches. In order to represent them as an agent he must know them very well. All of these coaches have started in a low profile job environment. In fact three of them had never even had a head coaching job at a high school. In order to go big you must start small. People who have a small job focus on there goals and when they become successful they set their sights one step higher.
Painfully Redundant, But Still Worth Reading.......2004-10-17
Those interested in football will find this book to be an enlightening book on leadership. All of the rules and points of quality leadership are presented in football terms. In effect, a head football coach is no different than any other type of business leader. The problems lies in the poor format of the book.
I enjoyed the story of Bob LaMonte. His unlikely rise from high school teacher to sports agent is nothing short of remarkable. His teaching career led him to acquaint himself with the high school's football coach Mike Holmgren. The reader can tell this is an important event in LaMonte's life since he literally retells it in each chapter. Many of Holmgren's assistant went on to head coaching jobs, creating new clients for LaMonte. Some like Holmgren and Gruden have done great things. Than there is Mike Sherman, the most overrated coach in the NFL.
As alluded to earlier, the concept is interesting but poorly told. So much of the information is continuously repeated that this book could have easily been under 200 pages. These are problems editors should fix. But as LaMonte would suggest in the book, he should take responsibility since it is his project.
Winner.......2004-09-23
This combines the leadership insights of 5 outstanding coaches in the NFL, the savvy of a top agent and the writing skill of an author who tells their story with gripping clarity. It is an absolute winner, a must read for anyone who truly wants to understand what makes a National Football League team/franchise click. The coaches are an NFL who's who - Jon Gruden, Mike Holmgren, John Fox, Andy Reid, Mike Sherman. The agent is Bob LaMonte, a former coach himself, who has rocketed to the top as a sports agent. The author is Robert L. Shook who (according to the jacket) has authored 48 books and his talent shows throughout as he makes the insights of agent and coaches come alive. Beyond this, the book will be invaluable to business leaders; indeed anyone who has, or wants to assume responsibility for developing an organization, motivating people, achieving personal goals, or coming out a winner. "Winning The NFL" way is both a winner and a guide to winning.
A Must Read Hybrid from Sports and Business Worlds .......2004-09-23
Before being accused of `going Hollywood,' I was an NFL writer for 20 years, the final 10 for The New York Times and USA Today. I wrote a book with Joe Montana and made a football film with Oliver Stone. And I can tell you this: Bob LaMonte is a classic American story, a former high school teacher who now controls the NFL coaching market as an agent much like Leigh Steinberg did with quarterbacks. LaMonte's top clients are larger than life, Andy Reid in Philly, Jon Gruden in Tampa, Mike Holmgren in Seattle, John Fox in Carolina, Mike Sherman in Green Bay. I was the one to had the pleasure of telling Bob LaMonte all about elite business author Bob Shook, who has written more books than some people have even had a chance to read; the two had crossed paths and it just so happened I knew them both well. So it was no surprise to see none other than 60 Minutes flashing their new book, Winning the NFL Way, on the screen last weekend. I know first-hand that it is on the desks of anyone who matters in the NFL. And I expect it to become a must-read for the business community as well, based on Bob Shook's track record. I am just stunned that LaMonte would reveal his trade secrets at such an early age! So if information truly is power you need to catch this one. Unless of course you want the train to pass you by ...
Richard Weiner
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STS Entertainment
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An in-depth look at strategies and techniques of five of the country's best money managers
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Five Key Lessons from Top Money Managers, Scott Kays taps into the investment knowledge of five of the nation's foremost money managers-Bill Nygren, Andy Stephens, Christopher Davis, Bill Fries, and John Calamos. Through extensive interviews with these investment experts, Kays found five principles that are common to all of them. This book discusses each of these five principles in detail-and gives readers specific tools to implement what they've learned by developing a step-by-step process that incorporates all five principles. Kays even teaches readers how to screen for companies that meet the criteria for quality businesses and then analyze three of the qualifying firms to determine if they sell above or below their fair market value.
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An in-depth look at strategies and techniques of five of the country's best money managers In Five Key Lessons from Top Money Managers, Scott Kays taps into the investment knowledge of five of the nation's foremost money managers-Bill Nygren, Andy Stephens, Christopher Davis, Bill Fries, and John Calamos. Through extensive interviews with these investment experts, Kays found five principles that are common to all of them. This book discusses each of these five principles in detail-and gives readers specific tools to implement what they've learned by developing a step-by-step process that incorporates all five principles. Kays even teaches readers how to screen for companies that meet the criteria for quality businesses and then analyze three of the qualifying firms to determine if they sell above or below their fair market value.
Customer Reviews:
Trying to Learn from the Successful.......2007-01-02
I am a devout Index Fund fan, but I always try and keep an open mind and examine active management approaches as well.
The author's approach for this book was to interview 5 managers who have beaten the S&P 500. He then identified common approaches from these 5 managers, which can be boiled down into a recommended process for individual investors.
This style reminds me of a series of 4 books written by John Train across the 70's, 80's, and early 90's (The Money Masters, the New Money Masters, Dance of the Money Bees, and the Craft of Investing). John Train did this same kind of analysis of master investors to try to learn their secrets of success.
The author boiled the methodologies of his 5 current day master investors into the following 5 steps:
1. Invest instead of speculate
2. Develop a very defined investment philosophy
3. Follow a detailed, repeatable process every time you analyze a security
4. Limit your investment selections to quality companies
5. Buy stock only when it is selling at or below fair market value
The author then goes on to give a couple of specific examples of how to apply this 5 step methodology.
The one issue I have with this approach is step #5 above. It sounds relatively easy to examine a company's historical financial performance, estimate how it will do the next 10 years, and then discount future earnings back to its intrinsic value......or stock price today. If the current market price is 60% or less than the company's intrinsic value, it is undervalued and you should buy it. Basically Benjamin Graham's method of buying companies for less than half of what they are worth, then selling when they reach full value.
I did this approach on a few companies several years ago. What I found out discouraged me from using the calculated intrinsic value approach. I found that the slightest change in inputs (estimates of how the company will perform in the future)......had a dramatic impact on the intrinsic value stock price. I decided that intrinsic value calculations are more art than science at that point.......which probably explains why very few people (except Warren Buffett or Charlie Munger) can accurately identify the intrinsic value of a company.
I don't think I have the time or talent to accurately identify intrinsic values......and therefore am happy to achieve market returns using Index Funds. If you think you do have this talent, and you think you can beat the market indexes every year, more power to you. The value approach of finding companies that you can buy for 50 or 60 cents on the dollar is probably less risky than other stock market investing methodologies.
If you are interested in this approach, I would highly recommend you read John Train's Money Masters book........and the updated New Money Masters book. Also go to the library and retrieve the August 1, 1977 Forbes story titled Ben Graham's Last Will and Testament. It goes into mathematical detail how to screen companies for potential additions to your portfolio.
I would suggest companion books to supplement this book including:
The Richest Man in Babylon
Bogle on Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor
The Millionaire Next Door
The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing, Ninth Edition
Index Mutual Funds: How to Simplify Your Financial Life and Beat the Pro's
The Coffeehouse Investor: How to Build Wealth, Ignore Wall Street, and Get On With Your Life
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
Wealth: Grow It, Protect It, Spend It, and Share It
All About Asset Allocation.
Practical and easy-to-read........2005-07-30
Most investment books explain theory without giving you a way to apply it. After reading this book, I not only understand the buy/sell philosophies of the managers interviewed, but I also know where I fit on the spectrum of investing (I think Christopher Davis is my closest match) and how to apply my knowledge. The system of filters set up in the second half of the book offers a way to combine theoretical knowledge and individual investment needs with a solid system of finding stocks. If you've read other investment books and don't have a system for applying what you've learned, this book is for you!
This book is something else you don't always find in the business sector: an enjoyable read that both entertains and informs. For the experienced investor, it offers a chance to pick the brains of the most successful managers in the country. All the managers explain their strategies for purchasing and selling stocks, as well as how they treat timing and value.
Just a note: another reviewer mentioned one of the keys, "invest only when the stock price is below fair value," as being obvious. It is. But what is not so obvious--and something all the managers seemed to take very seriously--is how to determine the "fair" price of the stock based on more than simple P/E ratios. The book gives an actual formula for valuing stocks--it doesn't just stop with the concept.
Very helpful!
Great Book for the Novice as Well As the Experienced Investor.......2005-07-29
Don't we all want to know what makes someone a success in their profession? Kays has brought together 5 of the country's top money managers and has unlocked the tried and true strategies that have made them a consistent success in the mutual fund industry.
This book will help the novice investor create a solid investment philosophy built upon unchanging fundamentals. As well, the experienced investor will be reminded that having a consistent investment philosophy is the key to long term success.
A look into each of the 5 money manager's backgrounds made for an unique and interesting read.
All can benefit from this book.
I personally have benefited from the advice in this book! .......2005-07-23
I really loved the interesting stories about the five money manages that Kays' interviewed. Not only do you find out the common traits of all these successful fund managers, more important, Scott writes about how to actually find a stock using his valuation model, giving the reader the secrets to successful stock picking. "Finding the Blue Light Specials" was my favorite chapter and already I've found stocks that are undervalued, making the information in this chapter alone worth the price of the book many times over.
Anecdotes are nice, "advice" is so-so (2.5 stars).......2005-07-16
In a very "general" book, the author profiles some of the better known fund managers. The book cover and title suggest that some significant information regarding these managers' trading style is discussed. Nope. The author waits until Chapter 8 to even list what the 5 key lessons are. Two of the lessons is "invest, do not speculate", and "invest only when the stock price is below fair price value (WOW!)". That should give you an idea of the "key" lessons. If you are researching this book for investment ideas, better luck elsewhere. On a positive note, the book offers a very good introductory discussion on present and future value of money and discounted cash flow model. Anecdotes of the managers when they were as young as 8 years old which molded their investment philosophy (isnt that very believable?) is an interesting read. Wont lose much if this book is skipped. If you are an absolute beginner, the book certainly has some merits and is worth a second look.
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LESSONS FOR EVERYONE IN BUSINESS FROM AN ALL-STAR TEAM
Every six months Dennis C. Carey and Marie-Caroline von Weichs run the CEO Academy, an immersion course for newly appointed CEOs of the world’s leading companies—what Business Week called a “boot camp” for the next class of top executives. Those attending get a priceless range of unvarnished advice and invaluable lessons from an all-star team of veteran CEOs about how to get the results they were hired to achieve.
What participants pay $10,000 to hear is now contained in this book, the insights and secrets of some of the most influential business leaders of our time. Here is advice from high-caliber businesspeople such as Larry Bossidy, the recently retired CEO of Honeywell International; Ray Gilmartin, the CEO of Merck; John Smale, the former chairman of General Motors and retired chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble; and John Dasburg, who has run Northwest Airlines, Burger King, and now DHL Airways.
Successful CEOs aren’t the only attraction. How to Run a Company also presents America’s leading business observers and watchdogs: Nell Minow, the shareholder rights activist; Ira Millstein, the legendary attorney and power broker; Matthew Bishop, business editor of The Economist; and Joseph Badaracco, Harvard Business School’s top professor of ethics.
The combined team offers original and revealing observations on how business leaders at the top of the corporate world tackle pressing challenges, such as:
• How an industrial goliath like DuPont dramatically shifted its business focus
• How The Home Depot changed from fast-growing, free-wheeling adolescence to the management discipline that will help it mature and continue to expand
• What Michael Armstrong, who oversaw the transformation of Hughes Electronics and AT&T, advises to companies whose core business begins to disappear
• How the CEO of Tyco moved quickly during his first 100 days to build a new senior management team and began to restore trust in a company battered by scandal and bad publicity
• The role of the board of directors and how corporate governance should be reformed
• What strategies Jack Welch’s investor relations team at GE used to constantly probe who was buying the stock, who wasn’t, and why
How to Run a Company is not just for CEOs, but anyone interested in the critical make-or-break factors in today’s ever-challenging business environment. As the demands and expectations in business become ever greater and the competition tougher, here in one volume is the accumulated wisdom and experience of people who have been in the trenches during a remarkable time.
How to Run a Company is the success manual for the twenty-first century.
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Every six months Dennis C. Carey and Marie-Caroline von Weichs run the CEO Academy, an immersion course for newly appointed CEOs of the world's leading companies -- what Business Week called a "boot camp" for the next class of top executives. Those attending get a priceless range of unvarnished advice and invaluable lessons from an all-star team of veteran CEOs about how to get the results they were hired to achieve.
What participants pay $10,000 to hear is now contained in this book: the insights and secrets of some of the most influential business leaders of our time. Here is advice from high-caliber businesspeople such as Larry Bossidy, the recently retired CEO of Honeywell International; Ray Gilmartin, the CEO of Merck; John Smale, the former chairman of General Motors and retired chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble; and John Dasburg, who has run Northwest Airlines, Burger King, and now DHL Airways.
Successful CEOs aren't the only attraction. How to Run a Company also presents America's leading business observers and watchdogs: Nell Minow, the shareholder rights activist; Ira Millstein, the legendary attorney and power broker; Matthew Bishop, business editor of The Economist; and Joseph Badaracco, Harvard Business School's top professor of ethics.
The combined team offers original and revealing observations on how business leaders at the top of the corporate world tackle pressing challenges, such as:
- How an industrial goliath like DuPont dramatically shifted its business focus
- How The Home Depot changed from fast-growing, free-wheeling adolescence to the management discipline that will help it mature and continue to expand
- What Michael Armstrong, who oversaw the transformation of Hughes Electronics and AT&T, advises to companies whose core business begins to disappear
- How the CEO of Tyco moved quickly during his first 100 days to build a new senior management team and began to restore trust in a company battered by scandal and bad publicity
- The role of the board of directors and how corporate governance should be reformed
- What strategies Jack Welch's investor relations team at GE used to constantly probe who was buying the stock, who wasn't, and why
How to Run a Company is not just for CEOs, but anyone interested in the critical make-or-break factors in today's ever-challenging business environment. As the demands and expectations in business become ever greater and the competition tougher, here in one volume is the accumulated wisdom and experience of people who have been in the trenches during a remarkable time. How to Run a Company is the success manual for the twenty-first century.
Customer Reviews:
Lessons Learned in the Corporate Trenches.......2004-02-21
Carey and Von Weichs have assembled an impressive selection of essays whose authors discuss various business subjects. Most of them are (or were) CEOs of major corporations and associated with Spencer Stuart's CEO Academy. As Carey and Von Weichs explain, "we suggested to each of the contributors that they address their topic as if it were the advice they wished they had received when they first started their job." I cannot recall a prior period in the history of American business when the position of CEO was more challenging than it is today. Consider this statistic: Between 1999 and 2001, 57% of the largest companies in the United States removed their CEOs. Daily it seems, we learn of other CEOs who has been forced to resign or are under tremendous pressure to improve their performance. Meanwhile, still other CEOs are indicted for various crimes.
"Two recent developments have fundamentally changed the rules of the game for chief executives. The first is a series of high-profile cases of corporate malfeasance that came to public attention beginning in the fall of 2001...The other development that has significantly changed the lives of CEOs is the noisy crash of the stock market and the accompanying bursting of the tech and telecom bubble." The best of recently published business books address an especially important question. For Carey and Von Weichs: "Where can an executive turn when seeking training and advice on how to lead and manage a company?" Answers vary, of course. What Carey and Von Weichs attempt to do in this book is to create access -- for as many executives as possible -- to what has been "an immense and untapped body of knowledge" which resides among seasoned and retired CEOs "who have been working in the trenches for many years."
Carey and Von Weichs organize their material within four Parts: Management and Leadership in the Midst of Change; Governance: The Board of Directors and Its CEO; Operational Excellence and the Pursuit of Strategy; and finally, The CEO and the Outside World. Here are four brief excerpts from various essays:
"A new CEO from outside the company also has to make it clear that some things will not change -- including basic values and ethical standards. When I came to Merck, I felt it was especially important to make it clear that I was totally in line with the values and traditions of the company. This was a matter of personal principle for me -- and something that was recognized by the board while they were recruiting and hiring me. I didn't want to impose new traditions or abandon old ones simply because I was coming in from the outside." Raymond V. Gilmartin, chairman and CEO of Merck & Co.
"Even when leading from strength, a CEO undergoing fundamental change must prepare for the long haul. The legendary film producer once quipped, `Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.' Similarly, a CEO has to realize that real transformation takes real time to accomplish. The biggest reason that corporate transformation is so difficult is that while it is easy to get agreement on what the problem is, the solution is seldom so obvious. People persist in trying to keep part of the old strategy alive, even if that gets in the way of implementing the new one." C. Michael Armstrong, chairman of Comcast Corporation and former chairman and CEO of AT&T and Hughes Electronics
"Anyone who is a graduate of GE's management training can be fairly accused of being consumed with the pursuit of data. But as I quickly learned, data are even more important in the retail game, given the speed with which you need to make decisions to respond to customer preferences or competitive challenges. Solid measurement systems were also needed to understand our workplace, our market, and the communities we served. To deal with this data in a smart way and make the information part of our short- and long-term thinking, we introduced the SOAR system -- a strategic, operating, and resource planning process -- which lets my senior team think about our strategy in a more organized way." Robert L. Nardelli, chairman, president, and CEO of The Home Depot
"I strongly believe that one of the key elements of success in investor relations [or relations with capital sources such as financial institutions] is to treat as customers the investors and analysts [or loan officers] with whom you are communicating. IR's job is to service the people who have influence over the company's share price [or working capital], just as the sales and marketing divisions service the people who have influence over the company's revenue." Mark W. Begor, president and CEO of GE Consumer Finance-Americas and former head of Investor Communications at General Electric
Many of those who should read this book are owners/CEOs of small, family-owned companies. Begor's comments mat not seem directly relevant to them but, in fact, they are. Over the years, I have worked closely with hundreds of such companies and until I strongly recommended it, only a few CEOs maintained direct and frequent contact (except on an as-needed basis) with her or his company's banker, attorney, accountant, insurance agent, etc. Why not invite them to serve on an advisory board which meets quarterly for breakfast or lunch? Why not see the advisory board as a focus group and/or unofficial board of directors to whom a quarterly "state of the company" briefing is presented? If you are an owner/CEO of such a company, re-read Begor's essay while thinking about members of the advisory board as the collective equivalent of investors and analysts. Formulate and then implement your IR initiatives accordingly.
To repeat, Carey and Von Weichs asked each of the contributors to address their topic "as if it were the advice they wished they had received when they first started their job." For whom will this advice be of greatest value? In my opinion, anyone now involved in business or preparing to do so. Few ever become a CEO but thinking like a CEO substantially improves the chances of becoming an effective senior-level executive. As this book clearly indicates, there is much to be learned from seasoned and retired CEOs "who have been working in the trenches for many years."
Book Description
What makes top achievers successful? This question is answered by two top consultants in interviews with some of the world's most accomplished individuals. Thanks to these individuals, you will learn to create your own definition of success.
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What does it really take to run a successful company today? Thomas Neff and James Citrin, U.S. chairman and managing director, respectively, of the Spencer Stuart executive-search firm, offer revealing answers in Lessons from the Top: The Search for America's Best Business Leaders. In 50 short but perceptive profiles, they identify and analyze the men and women who drive today's most successful corporations. As might be expected, the authors lean heavily on well-known CEOs such as Steve Case of America Online, Michael Dell of Dell Computer, and Howard Schultz of Starbucks. But they also look at a number who don't get the same publicity, including Fannie Mae's Frank Raines, the Gap's Don Fisher, and Autodesk's Carol Bartz. The result is a broad but surprisingly consistent palette of personalities and philosophies that in a concluding section Neff and Citrin highlight by synthesizing into 10 common traits (passion, intelligence, communication skill, high energy, controlled ego, inner peace, a defining background, strong family life, positive attitude, and a focus on "doing the right things right") and six core principles (live with integrity, develop a winning strategy, build a great management team, inspire employees, create a flexible organization, and implement relevant systems). This book is for managers and anyone else looking for the patterns of success, both in and out of business. --Howard Rothman
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In the bestselling tradition of
In Search of Excellence, a fascinating and authoritative selection of the most successful business leaders in America--and the strategies, methods, and motivational tools they use to help make their companies great.
"I don't expect anyone to be perfect," says Mike Armstrong, CEO of a reinvigorated AT&T. "It's not human nature. What I do expect is that they will take risks, correct mistakes, and learn from both." This is only one of the hundreds of comments and insights behind some of the most successful business minds in American industry.
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Lessons from the Top, Thomas J. Neff and James M. Citrin--the U.S. Chairman and a Managing Director of the renowned executive search firm Spencer Stuart--set out to identify the most successful business leaders in America, based on the most exacting standards imaginable. Then, in an extraordinary series of what amounts to master classes, the authors sit down with each of the fifty executives to discuss the long-term strategies, key accomplishments, guiding beliefs, and career milestones that have helped to make their organizations among the best-run companies in the world.
Lou Gerstner of IBM underscores the necessity of adapting to change. "We are constantly challenging what we do--building a culture of restless self-renewal." Ray Gilmartin of Merck discusses, among other things, the critical role of leadership. "My job is really to set the overall strategic direction of the company, to ensure that we are organized to carry out that strategy, and that we have the right management processes in place. I need to create an environment where everyone in the organization can achieve their full potential so that our company does."
What makes a business leader great? This is one of the burning questions in companies and boardrooms across America. An even more compelling question: Are there things each of us can learn from these leaders that we can apply to our own lives? Not surprisingly, there is no single answer to copy or formula to follow in order to excel in business.
In fact, the leaders selected in
Lessons from the Top are wildly different in their personalities, their paths to the top, and the industries they work in. But perhaps the best way to learn how to excel is by studying the strategies and thinking of the wide range of leaders who have proved themselves the best in their industries.
Of course, any list of the best business leaders in America would include such recognizable CEOs as Jack Welch, Bill Gates, Lou Gerstner, and Andy Grove. But the list the authors have so exhaustively researched and selected--with the help of the Gallup Organization and the analytical tools of investment advisors Lazard Frères--includes many names that are far less familiar--extraordinarily successful CEOs such as pharmaceutical industry leader Bill Steere of Pfizer, advertising executive Shelly Lazarus of Ogilvy & Mather, Dennis Kozlowski of Tyco International, and Frank Raines of Fannie Mae.
In the final section of the book, the authors distill the surprising number of qualities and characteristics that these extraordinarily accomplished individuals share, to offer lessons to help us in our own lives and careers.
A groundbreaking book on business and success,
Lessons from the Top should be required reading by leaders--and future leaders--everywhere.
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Execubooks are eSummaries of books for mobile professionals, available in single-copy or by subscription, and optimally formatted for onscreen reading on laptops or handhelds - so you can stay abreast of leading business wisdom, wherever you have a moment! In Lessons from the Top, Thomas J. Neff and James M. Citrin - the U.S. Chairman and a Managing Director of the executive search firm Spencer Stuart - set out to identity the most successful business leaders in America, based on the most exacting standards imaginable. Then, in an extraordinary series of what amounts to master classes, the authors sit down with each of the fifty executives to discuss the long-term strategies, key accomplishments, guiding beliefs, and career milestones that have helped to make their organizations among the best-run companies in the world.
Customer Reviews:
Worth Reading, Even for the Crooks.......2005-04-14
The sub-title of this book is "The Search for America's Best Business Leaders." That's misleading, but it kind of makes sense, given the folks who put the book together. The authors are principles of Spencer Stuart, an executive search firm.
They should be in a pretty good position to identify top business leaders and to study some of the factors that make them successful. They do, in fact, identify what they say are fifty of the best business leaders in America at the time the book was written.
It would make more sense if the subtitle were something like "Interviews with Fifty of America's Top Business Leaders." That would be much more like truth in advertising.
It would deal with the problem of identifying these folks as THE best business leaders. These are fifty folks who were viewed as top business leaders at the time the book was written.
As the authors say, that list is fluid and no single search could probably uncover all of the top business leaders. The folks listed here are leaders who've been covered by the business press. You won't find top leaders from smaller companies, or even leaders from big companies that haven't gotten much press coverage.
The list is also fixed in time. Bernie Ebbers, Hank Greenberg, Dennis Kozlowski and Ken Lay, all are on the list. They probably wouldn't be today, unless you were compiling a list of famous felons.
This book gives you an interview with each of fifty folks who were viewed as very successful business leaders. Each one talks about where they work and what they do and what matters to them. That's what this book is really about and why it's valuable.
What you've got here is fifty selections of wisdom and insight from people who are successful in business. They are articulate and insightful people. The represent a broad range of personal styles and backgrounds. And they're valuable because we know how some of their stories came out.
In addition to the felons, there are other folks on this list who aren't doing what they did back then. Jack Welch and Larry Bossidy have both moved from CEO to guru. Michael Eisner and Lou Gerstner have retired.
Read this book for the individual insights. All of the survey stuff that surrounds the interviews is just there to flesh out the book and make it look scientific.
Don't read this book all the way through. Dip into it and read a couple of interviews at a time and compare them. Mark passages that are insightful or inspiring for you and go back to them.
It's a book worth reading, but not for the reasons stated on the book's cover and not because all the folks in it turned out to be either top performers or stellar human beings. It's worth reading because it gives you a view into the minds of fifty folks who've made it to the top.
Dissapointing -- Major resources; poor result.......2003-10-23
The authors -- with Spencer Stuart (www.spencerstuart.com) -- had access to some distinguished (Lou Gerstner; Andy Grove, Bill Gates) and some not so distinguished (Bernie Ebbers, Ken Lay) CEOs, and they used Gallup to conduct series of interviews and polls trying to get some insights as to what makes some CEOs successful. What the authors produce are a series of capsules (2-4 pages for each CEO) which are descriptive of the CEOs and companies but have very little analysis.
It is in failing to use the resources at their disposal and access to some remarkable people to draw significant insights, that makes for the biggest shortfall of the book. One may just as well read a description of the CEOs or the companies in a business magazine or the Wall Street Journal.
There are no unique insights to be gained from this book. Yes, some of the CEOs provide some discussion points based on their experience, but much of the space is devoted to their company's specific problems at a particular time (thus leaders of questionable integrity, such as Ebbers and Lay were included).
What in my opinion the authors should have done is go above the specific company experience and focus on the qualities of these interesting individuals and show what has allowed them to have such significant impact on the business world and out society.
Unfortunately such insights are absent from the book. What a pity!
Lessons From the Top.......2003-08-20
James Citrin and Thomas Neff compile a set of business anecdotes from the results of their exhaustive surveying, hoping to convey the important lessons of 50 of America's top business leaders. Each leader profile has interesting personal details, a leadership "philosophy" to lead off the profile, and examples to help detail how the profile has made them successful.
What's particularly telling is that all the Leaders are chosen based upon the authors model of what a good business leader is -- that is, they "load" the deck by having asked who is first to come to mind when specific categorical questions are asked, such as "commitment to diversity". (They included the questions used in the initial survey, which was used to narrow the field to 50 Leaders.) Note, however, that leadership in management has been defined as how well they are able to get people to willingly adopt, follow and achieve their vision, and these questions ask nothing of that.
Also, it's weighed by company financial statements and "fame" of Leaders. Smaller companies with great Leaders will not get mentioned. For example, there is a small company in Los Angeles, that, in 2000, earned $500,000.00 per employee, by putting customers first, employees second and ownership last. Insisting that continued education was paramount to the success of the company, he sent a young manager to his alma mater, CalTech, for post-graduate work. He was always heard saying: "Customers first! Change is good! Have fun!" and his employees followed suite and found ingenious ways to improve quality, save money and enjoy work -- and they did it because they loved the president. That's LEADERSHIP.
The real surprise among smaller surprises is that an astonishing number of Leaders did not stay at their jobs for long (although, an equally astonishing number have been at the same company virtually all of their career). This suggests that loyalty is not a Leadership trait. (Note also that most of the companies had been wildly successful, long before the Leader arrived.) Another surprise is that very few of the Leaders earned advanced degrees, some earning honorary degrees (perhaps for charitable contributions to the school?). The richest man in the world, Bill Gates, didn't graduate from college??? Just shows how having a spectacular product will make you look like a great leader (Disney! Mobil! Campbell's Soup!) Why, even disgraced Enron CEO Ken Ley is among the Great.
What wasn't a surprise is that most Leaders attributed their success to a customer-based, quality-driven philosophy. That is, what quality professionals have known all along (and said much more succinctly by Eli Goldratt): the key to making money now and in the future is to make customers happy now and in the future (and making employees and suppliers happy now and in the future). Read Dr. Deming's 14 Points, and you'll see that every Leadership trait described in this book is accounted for in Deming's quality philosophies.
"Write what you want to read" was advice given to the authors, but was it sage advice? The book, 430 pages long, reads like a 50 section fluff piece on people that may not have given them the time of day, but not for being raised to the stature of 50 Best. The first three chapters, which outline the surveying and the structure of the book only show how eager the authors are to make nice with the big boys. They should've discarded the advice, and taken some from the Leaders: "write what your CUSTOMERS want to read".
Last comment: the Lesson Learned, supposedly a synopsis of what can be gleaned from the Leaders profiles, sums it up with Six Core Principles, strangely without mentioning the most frequently mentioned Leadership mantra "Please your customer". With that glaring omission, I can't see how the authors learned any Lessons from the Top.
A "could've been".......2003-02-14
In skimming through this at the bookstore I thought it was a "can't miss." Turns out it could miss.
I praise the author's strategy in that they assemble a wonderful group of leaders and pick their brain on a variety of issues - great for the average reader. The problem is that the data they gathered is pretty much raw data and needs some analysis to translate it into actionable findings. This isn't done until the end, and in my opinion, should have been 50% of the book, not 5%.
With everyone crunched for time, there are other business books that will provide better, more concise information. Save your time unless you have too much of it :)
Excellent Consolidation of Perspectives.......2002-08-24
There are many good books on business out there, but few combine the experiences of so many leading executives on the subject. Lessons From the Top includes interviews with 50 of the most respected leaders from America's top businesses. Especially attractive are the interviews with the execs that didn't author a book themselves.
That being said, the book has a number of problems: First, a very significant amount of the book is devoted to explaining how the authors chose the people that they chose, and explaining why they were the right people to be writing this book. What should have been a brief introduction and perhaps an appendix, became the first and last sections of the book and unfortunately, unless you are a statistician, these areas are quite boring. Second, the authors lost the individual voices of the people that they interviewed. Perhaps for consistency or brevity, they paraphrased so much and only introduced quotations as small parts of larger paragraphs that you really aren't able to tell the voice of the various people apart.
Also of note is that this book includes sections on Enron's Ken Lay and WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers -- perhaps not exactly the model to emulate -- but hindsight is 20/20 ...
All in all, Lessons From the Top is an well written book, rewarding for those just starting in business or those simply looking for a new opinion. Also, the authors have included (within the sections about the executive) names of various people (and the books that they wrote) who influenced the executive, so you may find other books to explore when you are done.
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Offers uplifting stories of success and sobering tales of secong-guessing.
Customer Reviews:
Interesting.......2000-03-21
A rather formulaic presentation of dozens of today's top CEO's, their strategies and their visions. Each CEO 'talks' for several pages in a very structured manner, and there's a little box for each showing a mini-resume of him/her. Amazing to me were the number coming from smaller colleges and NOT having MBAs. Also the very high proportion working 65+ weeks and married still!Many weave childhood, family, and young-adult work experience into how they approach work and that aspect is interesting.Nicely done, but not one of those books that absolutely blows you over (perhaps need to read Peter Drucker for that, according to these guys).
Interesting.......2000-03-21
A rather formulaic presentation of dozens of today's top CEO's, their strategies and their visions. Each CEO 'talks' for 3 or 4 pages in a very structured manner, and there's a little box for each showing a mini-resume of him/her. Amazing to me were the number coming from smaller colleges and NOT having MBAs. Also the very high proportion working 65+ weeks and married still!Many weave childhood, family, and young-adult work experience into how they approach work and that aspect is interesting.Nicely done, but not one of those books that absolutely blows you over (perhaps need to read Peter Drucker for that, according to these guys).
A realistic view into the life of a CEO........2000-02-29
Forget the celebrity hype often associated with being a CEO that is presented in most business magazines. The CEO Chronicles allows a look at CEOs that shows them as they are: real people dealing with real issues. This book acurately portrays the struggles and the triumphs associated with owning and running a business. This book is a great way for business owners and CEOs to see they are not alone and for their employees to better understand the complexities associated with life at the top.
Jim Canfield
Great stories from the top real businesses.......2000-01-22
This book really captured the kind of personal and professional challenges that real CEO's experience. It was refreshing to step into a series of stories from the kind of business leaders that truly run american business today.
Great read that allowed me to skip thru business stories in managable chunks.
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During the past quarter century, Black Enterprise magazine has been authoritatively chronicling the prime movers and shakers among African American entrepreneurs while annually ranking their top companies in numerous categories. Now, in Black Enterprise Titans of the B.E. 100s, editor-at-large Derek T. Dingle looks more closely at the 11 individuals who operate America's very largest black-owned firms. Among them are the well-known, such as Jet and Ebony magazine founder John H. Johnson and Black Entertainment Television creator Robert L. Johnson, along with the not-so-well-known, such as auto dealer and former NFL star Mel Farr Sr. and "People's Banker" Emma C. Chappell. Touching upon an array of industries--ranging from media and music to food processing and construction--it presents these "passionate, proud and persevering" men (and one woman) in illuminating profiles that benefit from the magazine's long-range perspective. They show how both established and emerging leaders have used "imagination and drive" to battle "a lack of capital, diminished access, and outright racism" and still succeed on such a grand level. Additionally, they introduce these formidable corporate figures to a broader audience that in the future will also benefit from their experiences. --Howard Rothman
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PRAISE FOR LESSONS FROM THE TOP
"[Lessons from the Top] challenges the vintage profile of the entrepreneur by showcasing the impressive and dynamic careers of African American executives who surmounted social, economic, and political barriers to gain their deserved place in today's world of the business elite."
-Kweisi Mfume, President and CEO, NAACP
"[Lessons from the Top] aptly documents the achievements of African American entrepreneurs who embody the legacy of the twentieth century and the hope of the twenty-first century. The principles espoused by these esteemed business leaders are essential to the future of the civil rights movement as we prepare our children for self-reliance and our adults for economic self-sufficiency in the next century."
-Hugh B. Price, President, National Urban League
Lessons from the Top profiles eleven of the most powerful and influential CEOs of the nation's largest black-owned businesses across a broad cross section of industries. These compelling and motivating stories of personal triumph and business success will surely light the way for the next generation of great African American business leaders.
Don H. Barden • Emma C. Chappell • Mel Farr Sr. • Charles H. James III • John H. Johnson • Robert L. Johnson • Byron E. Lewis • Herman J. Russell • Russell Simmons • Clarence O. Smith • Percy E. Sutton
Customer Reviews:
"By the content of their character".......2007-04-27
Titans should be required reading for African Americans that doubt the promise. In spite of our nations ills, some of these individuals made millions in the 40's. Think about that! Given the current state of affairs (The Don Imus incident) it's clearly evident that race is still an extremely sensitive issue in this nation. Consider current racial disparities then consider the concept of dark-skinned African American male millionaires in the 40's. It's an unbelieveable achievement! If they were able to do it and create dynasties for their families in their time, what's stopping present day African Americans from reaching their financial goals and dreams today? This book is yet another small piece of evidence that determination, dedication and delayed gratification are the true components of realizing a dream. It helps prove that good luck is created by hard work; more importantly, it ensures, through the cohesivenss of the family unit, that those characteristics be past on to the next generation creating traditions of success and a grounded since of identity. A quality noticably missing from the present day African American male image. It's important to note the African American family unit, before the onslaught of the welfare referendum of the 60's, as a pinnacle source of support. I'm usually hesitant about grading generously but I think this book, brief though it may be, with it's little life snipits of successful African Americans lives, reinforces the ethos of hard work and just rewards based on merit. But not a form of merit preached to you by a sceptical public or more acceptable form forced upon you through legislative pity, but a personal merit earned through hard work and family pride.
Eleven inspiring African American business success stories.......2000-08-19
This is a book of African American business success stories. Until now, the eleven self-made black business leaders featured-The Titans of the Black Enterprise 100s-were virtually unknown, even to American business students. Yet, they run America's largest black-owned companies and have been the vanguard of an entrepreneurial revolution. Achieving success despite lack of capital, diminished access, and outright racism, they used inspiration and drive to seize opportunities and break barriers. They are black America's wealthiest and most powerful players, providing employment, training, and advancement for large numbers of African Americans.
They represent, in many ways, the economic evolution of post-war African Americans. The first step in the effort for black equality was driven largely by the Civil Rights Movement, which led to the social and legal reforms of the 1950s and 1960s. Next, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which eliminated such barriers to political activity as the poll tax and illiteracy test, gave rise to the increase in black political strength with the election of blacks to Congress in the late 1960s and 1970s. Those events were followed by the propulsion of black economic power in which African Americans gained an opportunity to amass wealth and achieve the American Dream that had been elusive for so long. In the 1980s and 1990s, blacks, who gained access to the nation's leading universities and major corporations, leveraged their education and experience to acquire and finance new companies as well as develop enterprises through emerging technologies.
The eleven chapters of this book each tell the untold story of these titans and the contributions they and their companies have made to American industry and life. Their stories and ideas will instruct, inspire, illuminate and motivate the reader to build on their success. This book is a source of inspiration and motivation to the next generation of captains of industry of all races and both genders the world over.
Derek T. Dingle is an editor-at-large for Black Enterprise magazine. For more than a decade, he has covered the B.E. 100s, which profile the 100 largest black-owned businesses, and he recently served as writer for B.E. 100s Exclusive, a newsletter for CEOs of these companies. In addition to his role as the managing editor of BE several years ago, he served as president and CEO of Milestone Media, Inc., which was America's largest black-owned comic book company.
Eleven inspiring African American business success stories.......1999-09-26
This is a book of African American business success stories. Until now, the eleven self-made black business leaders featured-The Titans of the Black Enterprise 100s-were virtually unknown outside the United States, and even to American business students. Yet, they run America's largest black-owned companies and have been the vanguard of an entrepreneurial revolution. Achieving success despite lack of capital, diminished access, and outright racism, they used inspiration and drive to seize opportunities and break barriers. They are black America's wealthiest and most powerful players, providing employment, training, and advancement for large numbers of African Americans.
The eleven chapters of this book each tell the untold story of these titans and the contributions they and their companies have made to American industry and life.
Their stories and ideas will instruct, inspire, illuminate and motivate the reader to build on their success. This book is a source of inspiration and motivation to the next generation of captains of industry of all races and both genders the world over.
Derek T. Dingle is an editor-at-large for Black Enterprise magazine. For more than a decade, he has covered the B.E. 100s, which profile the 100 largest black-owned businesses, and he recently served as writer for B.E. 100s Exclusive, a newsletter for CEOs of these companies. In addition to his role as the managing editor of BE several years ago, he served as president and CEO of Milestone Media, Inc., which was America's largest black-owned comic book company.
Reviewed by Azlan Adnan. Formerly Business Development Manager with KPMG, Azlan is currently managing partner of Azlan & Koh Knowledge and Professional Management Group, an education and management consulting practice based in Kota Kinabalu. He holds a Master's degree in International Business and Management.
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