CEO Excellence (Unabridged)
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4.2 • 38 Ratings
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
A must read!!
My boss, just like any other, wants to improve his staff. He just became a leader by telling me to read this book. So well written and thought out!!
Impossible to take seriously
Motivations of the authors are apparent within 5 minutes and obvious throughout. In the very first chapter they proudly adjust CEO ranking methodology because their first resulted in too many white males. Makes it hard to trust almost any research presented.
Narrator hurt the book
Not a great book, but not a bad book either. It had some helpful guidance. The narrator’s voice was hard to take for more than about 15 minutes at a time. I would have enjoyed reading it more than listening.