Nightly Business Report Presents Lasting Leadership: What You Can Learn from the Top 25 Business People of Our Times

Paths to greatness: Actionable lessons from today's most remarkable business leaders Incisive profiles from Knowledge@Wharton and Nightly Business Report Andy Grove, Mary Kay Ash, Lou Gerstner, Richard Branson, Herb Kelleher, Charles Schwab... and 19 more 
In this book, two of the world's most respected sources of business insight come together to select and profile the 25 most influential businesspeople of the past quarter century. These incisive profiles teach specific lessons you can use to discover, refine, and nurture your own leadership style... achieve breakthrough results... and accelerate your career progress. 
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. Together, they offer powerful new insights into familiar faces--and reveal the passion and brilliance that allowed less-well-known leaders to achieve the extraordinary. 
From corporate culture to brand management, risk-taking to pricing, this book's insights won't just help you: they'll inspire you. 
What outstanding leaders do, and how they do it 
Actionable insights for achieving your own form of greatness 
Building corporate culture that can withstand anything 
What you can learn from Southwest's Herb Kelleher and J&amp;J's James Burke 
Key attributes of lasting leadership 
Giving voice to customers, giving voice to truth 
Getting smarter, faster 
Case studies in building organizations that learn--and act 
Reinventing your business: when it's time, how to do it 
Lessons from the master: Steve Jobs 
Discovering underserved markets--and serving them profitably 
Mohammed Yunus: Profiting from entrepreneurship in the world's poorest communities 
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 
25 compelling profiles from two of the world's leading sources of business insight: 
Nightly Business Report and The Wharton School's Knowledge@Wharton 
25 extraordinary leaders, 25 incisive profiles: 
Andy Grove, Intel 
Bill Gates, Microsoft 
John Bogle, The Vanguard Group 
Steve Jobs, Apple &amp; Pixar 
Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway 
Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines 
Sam Walton, Wal-Mart 
Jack Welch, GE 
Jeff Bezos, Amazon 
Mary Kay Ash, Mary Kay 
Michael Dell, Dell 
Peter F. Drucker 
Alan Greenspan 
Oprah Winfrey, Harpo, Inc. 
George Soros, Soros Fund Management 
James Burke, Johnson &amp; Johnson 
Lee Iacocca, Chrysler 
Peter Lynch, Fidelity Investments 
Frederick Smith, FedEx 
Mohammed Yunus, Grameen Bank 
Ted Turner, Turner Broadcasting 
Lou Gerstner, IBM &amp; RJR Nabisco 
Charles Schwab, Charles Schwab 
Richard Branson, Virgin 
William George, Medtronic

Nightly Business Report Presents Lasting Leadership: What You Can Learn From The Top 25 Business People Of Our Times

Business & Money

Brown, Jeffrey

Warner, Susan

Pandya, Mukul

Shell, Robbie

Junnarkar, Sandeep

Management & Leadership

Wharton School Pub

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

Brown, Jeff.

Ft Pr

Offers a new way of looking at the perplexing circumstances surrounding business today. Knowledge@Wharton on Building Corporate Value examines the financial and strategic approaches for bringing companies back from the bleeding edge. Through a combination of research, Wharton Executive Education programs and events, and company cases and interviews with industry leaders, this book delivers epiphanies for managers who have lost their way in the e-craze. The authors provide a framework for applying more robust and rigorous approaches to financing, outsourcing, R&amp;D, company infrastructure, and customer relationship management.

Knowledge@Wharton: On Building Corporate Value

Singh, Harbir

Clemons, Eric

Mittelstaedt Jr., Robert E.

wiley

Discover the attributes of the 25 greatest business leaders and how they can enhance your own leadership. 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.The full list: Andy Grove; Bill Gates; John Bogle; Steve Jobs; Warren Buffett; Herb Kelleher; Sam Walton; Jack Welch; Jeff Bezos; Mary Kay Ash; Michael Dell; Peter Drucker; Alan Greenspan; Oprah Winfrey; George Soros; James Burke; Lee Iacocca; Peter Lynch; Frederick Smith; Mohammed Yunus; Ted Turner; Lou Gerstner; Charles Schwab; Richard Branson; and William George. No other book offers this much actionable insight into this many extraordinary business leaders.

Lasting Leadership (Arabic Edition)

Arab Scientific Publishers

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