Straight from the CEO: The World's Top Business Leaders Reveal Ideas That Every Manager Can Use (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780684851952)

Straight from the CEO reveals the practical, far-reaching insights of the world's top CEOs, including:
Royal Dutch/Shell's Cor Herkströter, mastermind of the most ambitious makeover among the world's energy behemoths;
British Airways' Sir Colin Marshall, the market genius who powered the carrier's celebrated turnaround;
Chase Manhattan's Walter Shipley, architect of one of the largest mergers ever to take place in the financial sector;
Monsanto's Robert B. Shapiro, who has raised the hurdle bar on growth and profitability goals, although the company is at the peak of its form;
British Aerospace's Sir Richard Evans, developer of one of Britain's biggest and boldest corporate-change management programs;
Compaq Computer's Eckhard Pfeiffer, who has transformed himself from a successful turnaround artist into a hard-driving champion of continuous corporate renewal.
Straight from the CEO is a major event, providing the rare opportunity to hear directly from the world's greatest business leaders. No ivory-tower theorizing, no speeches, no "consultant speak," these are the practical insights of leaders who every day must find ways to test and validate new ideas, implement change to improve the bottom line, and ultimately focus on the core ideas that will truly reshape their corporations. Straight from the CEO is an invaluable tool for managers at every level.

Author: G. William Dauphinais
ISBN-10: 0684851954
ISBN-13: 9780684851952
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 09/21/1999
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.42w x 0.73d

Review Citation(s):
Business Connections 09/01/1999 pg. 17