Nightly business report presents lasting leadership : what you can learn from the top 25 business people of our times

By: Pandya, MukulContributor(s): Shell, RobbieMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey : Wharton School Publishing, ©2006Description: xxxi, 274 pISBN: 9780131877306 ; 9780131531185; 0131531182 Subject(s): Leadership | Business people | Industrial managementDDC classification: 658.4092
Contents:
Best of the best: inside Andy Grove's leadership at Intel -- Leadership and corporate culture -- Truth tellers -- Identifying an underserved market -- Seeing the invisible -- Using price to gain competitive advantage -- Managing the brand -- Fast learners -- Managing risk -- Conclusion.
Summary: 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. "In this book, two of the world's most respected sources of business insight come together to select and profile the 25 most influential business people 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes Index.

Best of the best: inside Andy Grove's leadership at Intel --
Leadership and corporate culture --
Truth tellers --
Identifying an underserved market --
Seeing the invisible --
Using price to gain competitive advantage --
Managing the brand --
Fast learners --
Managing risk --
Conclusion.

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.

"In this book, two of the world's most respected sources of business insight come together to select and profile the 25 most influential business people 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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