| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xi, 432 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
The Search for the Best Business Leaders in America -- What Makes Business Leaders Great -- Evaluating Today's Business Leaders -- Methodology: A Closer Look at the Numbers -- Profiles -- Overview to Profiles -- "You've got to have the guts to make a decision." / Mike Armstrong -- Leading by example / Carol Bartz -- Creating customers for life / Hans Becherer -- It's how you'd run an airline / Gordon Bethune -- "There was a time when I thought brains were everything." / Larry Bossidy -- Execute / Jim Broadhead -- You've got mail / Steve Case -- "Everybody here knows what we want to accomplish." / John Chambers -- The power of direct / Michael Dell -- Managing the nation's material, human, and inner resources / Elizabeth Dole -- "You don't want to be a manager. You want to be a leader." / Bob Eaton -- "The only real values are the eternal ones." / Bernie Ebbers -- "What you are striving for is magic, not perfection." / Michael Eisner -- The Gap Formula for Success is as easy as 1-2-3: luck, common sense, and a small ego / Don Fisher -- (Earth)Mover / Don Fites -- Missionary / Bill Gates -- "Once you think you can write down what made you successful, you won't be." / Lou Gerstner -- "Working for a higher purpose" / Ray Gilmartin -- "We hire PSDs: people who are poor, smart, and have a deep desire to be rich." / Ace Greenberg -- "You look for white blackbirds." / Hank Greenberg -- The boss must be in charge of training / Andy Grove -- Rallying--and leading--the troops / Charles Heimbold. |
| Summary |
"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."--Jacket. |
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Leadership.
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Executive ability.
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Success in business.
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Management.
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Executive ability. (OCoLC)fst00917778
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Leadership. (OCoLC)fst00994701
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Management. (OCoLC)fst01007141
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Success in business. (OCoLC)fst01137062
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Liderança.
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Capacidade executiva.
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Sucesso profissional.
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Führungstechnik.
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Topmanager.
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United States.
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Führungstechnik. (DE-588)4200179-1
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Topmanager. (DE-588)4124319-5
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United States. (DE-588)4078704-7
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| Added Author |
Citrin, James M.
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Brown, Paul B.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Neff, Thomas J. Lessons from the top. 1st ed. New York : Currency/Doubleday, 1999 (OCoLC)647489333 |
| ISBN |
0385493436 (hbd.) |
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9780385493437 (hbd.) |
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