Nightly Business Report Presents Lasting Leadership: What You Can Learn from the Top 25 Business People of our Times
- By Mukul Pandya, Robbie Shell, Susan Warner, Sandeep Junnarkar, Jeffrey Brown
- Published Jan 31, 2006 by Pearson Prentice Hall.
- Copyright 2006
- Dimensions: 6x9
- Pages: 320
- Edition: 1st
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- ISBN-10: 0-13-187730-5
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-187730-6
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Written by Knowledge@Wharton’s Editor Mukul Pandya and Managing Editor Robbie Shell, with additional reporting and writing by Susan Warner, Sandeep Junnarkar, and Jeff Brown.
MUKUL PANDYA is editor and director of Knowledge@Wharton, a web-based journal of research and business analysis published by The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
A winner of four awards for investigative journalism, Mr. Pandya has more than twenty years of experience as a writer and editor. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, Time Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other publications. He coauthored Knowledge@Wharton on Building Corporate Value. Mr. Pandya has an M.A. in economics from the University of Bombay.
ROBBIE SHELL, the managing editor of Knowledge@Wharton, has worked as a business reporter and editor for national news services, newspapers, and magazines throughout her career.
She has covered both the White House and U.S. Supreme Court and taught journalism at the University of Virginia. Her freelance work most recently appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Robbie Shell is graduate of Princeton University.
Now in paperback. . . . What outstanding leaders do, and how they do it. Building corporate culture that can withstand anything. Reinventing your business: when it's time, how to do it. Key attributes of lasting leadership. The greatest business leaders of our generation. How they achieved the impossible. What you can learn from them. How to use those lessons to supercharge your career. Two of the world's leaders in business knowledge and insight come together to select and profile the 25 most influential businesspeople of the past quarter century. The team: Nightly Business Report, the United States' #1 daily TV business news program, and Knowledge@Wharton, The Wharton School's online journal of research and business analysis. The book's incisive profiles show exactly how each business leader became so influential. They teach lessons you can use to discover, refine, and nurture your own leadership style -- and gain powerful influence in your own career. You'll gain new insights into familiar faces (Jack Welch, Lou Gerstner, Bill Gates). But you'll also gain greater appreciation for less heralded individuals -- from Mary Kay's Mary Kay Ash to Mohammed Yunus, whose 'microlending' revolution is helping millions of poor people around the world transform themselves into entrepreneurs. No other book offers this much actionable insight into this many extraordinary business leaders.
A Conversation with Jack Welch xiii
Introduction xxiii
Chapter 1 Best of the Best: Inside Andy Grove's Leadership at Intel 1
Chapter 2 Leadership and Corporate Culture 21
Chapter 3 Truth Tellers 47
Chapter 4 Identifying an Underserved Market 73
Chapter 5 Seeing the Invisible 103
Chapter 6 Using Price to Gain Competitive Advantage 131
Chapter 7 Managing the Brand 159
Chapter 8 Fast Learners 183
Chapter 9 Managing Risk 209
Chapter 10 Conclusion 237
References 243
Index 261
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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
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This review is from: Nightly Business Report Presents Lasting Leadership: What You Can Learn from the Top 25 Business People of our Times (Hardcover)
What a wonderful book this turned out to be. Not only did it give me an insight into what these individuals key strengths were, but the book also had enough personal information about them that you came away from the book feeling you knew more about them as individuals. The book starts off by making the assurance that great leaders are not only capable individuals, but they also have a desire to lead and chose to do so above all else. They are not just great because of smarts or drive, but because they want to be and work at it continuously. Thus the authors provide a book that is not a road map to greatness, but a review of these 25 leaders and what they do that has made them successful. It is a broad group of people and it is interesting that the traits highlighted in the book are also wide spanning. I had incorrectly assumed that the book was going to give me a simple list of the things I needed to get good at, no such luck.The goal of the book is to help current... Read more
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
One of the best new business books recently released...,
This review is from: Nightly Business Report Presents Lasting Leadership: What You Can Learn from the Top 25 Business People of our Times (Hardcover)
Who doesn't want to know about leadership? It is a discipline that has been called an "art" by Max DePree and dissected by countless academics. Wharton School Publishing has created, in collaboration with Nightly Business Report (NBR) and Knowledge@Wharton, a perfect book for those of us who like to discover how leadership is done.The book identifies the 25 most influential business leaders of the past 25 years-side note, I didn't make it. The NBR viewers nominated more than 700 business people from around the world-once again, I was skipped. A panel of six Wharton judges selected the top 25. Seriously, it is a great list. Iacocca, Welch, Branson, Buffett, Bezos, and Kelleher. The panel was asked to pick the "best" of the 25. Andy Grove won that honor. 2 of the 25 have died-Sam Walton and Mary Kay Ash-and they interviewed 15 of the remaining 23. They have identified eight characteristics that have enabled the 25 individuals to overcome major challenges as well... Read more
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The last time I checked, Amazon and Borders offer 18,573 different books on the subject of leadership, supplemented by a significant number of CDs, DVDs, etc. Obviously, interest in this subject remains great as a New Year begins and, if anything, that interest will probably increase in 2006. Many of these books focus primarily on specific qualities which all great leaders share in common. Others focus primarily on individuals (on CEOs such as Jack Welch, public figures such as Winston Churchill, and military leaders such as Ulysses S. Grant) as exemplars of great leaders. Still others focus on both.What we have in this volume is a rigorous and eloquent examination of 25 contemporary business executives who have provided great leadership over an extended period of time. Lasting Leadership is the result of a collaboration of Nightly Business Report and Knowledge@Wharton. Credit Mukul Pandya and Robbie Shell with their brilliant organization and presentation of material in... Read more |
Table of Contents
A Conversation with Jack Welch xiii
Introduction xxiii
Chapter 1 Best of the Best: Inside Andy Grove's Leadership at Intel 1
Chapter 2 Leadership and Corporate Culture 21
Chapter 3 Truth Tellers 47
Chapter 4 Identifying an Underserved Market 73
Chapter 5 Seeing the Invisible 103
Chapter 6 Using Price to Gain Competitive Advantage 131
Chapter 7 Managing the Brand 159
Chapter 8 Fast Learners 183
Chapter 9 Managing Risk 209
Chapter 10 Conclusion 237
References 243
Index 261
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