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What the Best CEOs Know[c] 7 Exceptional Leaders and Their Lessons for Transforming Any Business

ISBN: 007146252X
EAN: N/A

Year: 2002
Pages: 109

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• Table of Contents
• BackCover
• What the Best CEOs Know - 7 Exceptional Leaders and Their Lessons for Transforming any Business
• The Era of the CEO?
• CEOs in the Crosshairs
• A Reader s Guide to What the Best CEOs Know
• Part 1: What Made Them Great
• Chapter 1: The Exceptional Seven and the Traits that Defined Them
• How the CEOs were Selected
• Great Companies, Great Investments?
• In Search of the Leadership Threads
• Part 2: Defining Strategies of Exceptional Leaders
• Chapter 2: Place the Customer at the Epicenter of the Business Model
• Accelerating Market Share in Bad Times
• The Demand Side of the Dell Strategy
• Involve Customers First to Avoid Disasters
• Involve Everyone in Creating Value for the Customer
• Structure the Organization Around the Customer (How Dell Acts Small While Getting Bigger)
• Assessing Your CEO Quotient
• More Lessons From the CEO
• Chapter 3: Create an Authentic Learning Organization
• The Welch Legacy
• The Four Characteristics of a Learning Organization
• Creating a Learning Infrastructure
• A Road Map for Creating a Learning Organization
• Potential Roadblocks to Sustaining a Learning Culture
• Assess Your CEO Quotient
• More Lessons From the CEO
• Chapter 4: Focus on Solutions
• One IBM is Better Than Eight
• Put a Customer in the CEO s Office
• Gaining the Solutions Edge
• When Hardware Stalls, Turn to Service
• From Big Iron to E-Business Juggernaut
• Invest in RD: the Solutions Perspective
• Assessing Your CEO Quotient
• More Lessons From the CEO
• Chapter 5: Prepare the Organization for Drastic Change
• The Dual Levers of Success: Execution and Strategy
• The First Crisis: Intel Gets Beaten at its Own Game
• Strategic Inflection Points Defined: A 10X Change
• Strategic Inflections Points Can Strengthen Organizations
• Dealing with a Strategic Inflection Point: A Manager s Primer
• Preparing Your Organization for a Strategic Inflection Point
• Let Chaos Reign: Experiment Early - And Often
• Assessing Your CEO Quotient
• More Lessons From the CEO
• Chapter 6: Harness the Intellect of Every Employee
• Rethink the Way Information Moves Inside the Company
• The Rise of the Internet and the End of Microsoft?
• Foster a Culture in Which Ideas Rule
• Empower Workers with Information They Can Act On
• Develop Your Corporate Memory
• Assessing Your CEO Quotient
• More Lessons of the CEOs
• Chapter 7: Create a Performance-Driven Culture
• Kelleher on Culture: An Irreplaceable Asset
• Hire for Culture
• Kelleher on Profit: A By-Product of Customer Service
• Kelleher on a Leadership Culture
• Kelleher on Compensation: Pay Executives Less and Employees More
• Limit Structure to Four Management Layers
• Kelleher s Steps to a High-Performance Culture
• Assessing Your CEO Quotient
• More Lessons From the CEO
• Chapter 8: Learn From Competitors, but Remain Faithful to the Vision
• A Pioneer of the Learning Culture
• Innovate, Experiment, Create Anarchy
• Faithful to the Vision: Lowest Prices
• Walton s Small-Town Strategy
• A Key to Double-Digit Growth: Stay Product-Driven
• The First Information-Age CEO?
• Assessing Your CEO Quotient
• More Lessons From the CEO
• Sources and Notes
• The ERA of the CEO?
• Chapter 1: The Exceptional Seven and the Traits that Defined Them
• Chapter 2: Place the Customer at the Epicenter of the Business Model
• Chapter 3: Create an Authentic Learning Culture
• Chapter 4: Focus on Solutions
• Chapter 5: Prepare the Organization for Drastic Change
• Chapter 6: Harness the Intellect of Every Employee
• Chapter 7: Create a Performance-Driven Culture
• Chapter 8: Learn From Competitors, but Remain Faithful to the Vision
• Index
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• Index_C
• Index_D
• Index_E
• Index_F
• Index_G
• Index_H
• Index_I
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• Index_K
• Index_L
• Index_M
• Index_N
• Index_O
• Index_P
• Index_R
• Index_S
• Index_T
• Index_U
• Index_V
• Index_W
• Index_Z
• List of Sidebars