CEO Excellence
The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest
Published on 15. March 2022
384 pages
978-1-9821-7969-4 (ISBN)
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New York Times Bestseller • Wall Street Journal Bestseller
From McKinsey & Company, the world's most influential management consulting firm, comes CEO Excellence, an insight-packed leadership book that reveals how the best CEOs think and act?based on interviews with elite leaders from Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, General Motors, Sony, and more.
Being a CEO at a major company is one of the toughest executive roles?Fortune?500 CEOs often face massive stakes, yet many fail early: 30% don't last three years, and 40% are deemed ineffective within eighteen months. What separates successful CEOs from the rest?
The authors began with over 2,400 public-company CEOs, narrowed to an elite sixty-seven who participated in multi-hour interviews. Among them: Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan Chase), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Reed Hastings (Netflix), Kazuo Hirai (Sony), Ken Chenault (American Express), Mary Barra (GM), Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (Nestlé), and others?offering rich insight into CEO best practices, leadership strategy, and business execution.
Their candid conversations and McKinsey's data reveal how the top CEOs use core mindsets and signature practices?across strategy, culture, talent, stakeholder engagement, board relations, and personal effectiveness?to deliver extraordinary results.
Practical, unprecedented in scope, and essential for leaders at every level, CEO Excellence is a management manual grounded in real-world CEO experience and leadership innovation.
From McKinsey & Company, the world's most influential management consulting firm, comes CEO Excellence, an insight-packed leadership book that reveals how the best CEOs think and act?based on interviews with elite leaders from Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, General Motors, Sony, and more.
Being a CEO at a major company is one of the toughest executive roles?Fortune?500 CEOs often face massive stakes, yet many fail early: 30% don't last three years, and 40% are deemed ineffective within eighteen months. What separates successful CEOs from the rest?
The authors began with over 2,400 public-company CEOs, narrowed to an elite sixty-seven who participated in multi-hour interviews. Among them: Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan Chase), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Reed Hastings (Netflix), Kazuo Hirai (Sony), Ken Chenault (American Express), Mary Barra (GM), Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (Nestlé), and others?offering rich insight into CEO best practices, leadership strategy, and business execution.
Their candid conversations and McKinsey's data reveal how the top CEOs use core mindsets and signature practices?across strategy, culture, talent, stakeholder engagement, board relations, and personal effectiveness?to deliver extraordinary results.
Practical, unprecedented in scope, and essential for leaders at every level, CEO Excellence is a management manual grounded in real-world CEO experience and leadership innovation.
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The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest
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Carolyn Dewar, a coauthor of the New York Times bestselling CEO Excellence, is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company. She has published over thirty articles in the Harvard Business Review and the McKinsey Quarterly and is a frequent keynote speaker.
Scott Keller is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company. He is the author or coauthor of seven books, including CEO Excellence and the national bestseller Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Create Ultimate Competitive Advantage.
Vikram (Vik) Malhotra, a coauthor of CEO Excellence, is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company where he has worked since 1986. He has served on McKinsey's Board of Directors and as McKinsey's Managing Partner of the Americas.
Scott Keller is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company. He is the author or coauthor of seven books, including CEO Excellence and the national bestseller Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Create Ultimate Competitive Advantage.
Vikram (Vik) Malhotra, a coauthor of CEO Excellence, is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company where he has worked since 1986. He has served on McKinsey's Board of Directors and as McKinsey's Managing Partner of the Americas.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Direction-Setting Mindset: Be Bold
- Chapter 1: Vision Practice: Reframe the Game
- Chapter 2: Strategy Practice: Make Big Moves Early and Often
- Chapter 3: Resource Allocation Practice: Act Like an Outsider
- Organization Alignment Mindset: Treat the Soft Stuff as the Hard Stuff
- Chapter 4: Culture Practice: Find the One Thing
- Chapter 5: Organization Design Practice: Solve for "Stagility"
- Chapter 6: Talent Management Practice: (Don't) Put People First
- Mobilizing Leaders Mindset: Solve for the Team's Psychology
- Chapter 7: Team Composition Practice: Create an Ecosystem
- Chapter 8: Teamwork Practice: Make the Team the Star
- Chapter 9: Operating Rhythm Practice: Get into a Groove
- Board Engagement Mindset: Help Directors Help the Business
- Chapter 10: Board Relationships Practice: Build a Foundation of Trust
- Chapter 11: Board Capabilities Practice: Tap the Wisdom of Elders
- Chapter 12: Board Meetings Practice: Focus on the Future
- Stakeholder Connection Mindset: Start with "Why?"
- Chapter 13: Social Purpose Practice: Impact the Big Picture
- Chapter 14: Stakeholder Interaction Practice: Get to the Essence
- Chapter 15: Moments of Truth Practice: Stay Elevated
- Personal Effectiveness Mindset: Do What Only You Can Do
- Chapter 16: Time and Energy Practice: Manage a Series of Sprints
- Chapter 17: Leadership Model Practice: Live Your "To-Be" List
- Chapter 18: Perspective Practice: Stay Humble
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix 1: CEO Excellence Assessment and Prioritization Tools
- Appendix 2: CEO Biographies
- Jacques Aschenbroich
- Lilach Asher-Topilsky
- Doug Baker Jr.
- Ajay Banga
- Mary Barra
- Oliver Bäte
- Alain Bejjani
- Frank Blake
- Dick Boer
- Ana Botín
- Peter Brabeck-Letmathe
- Ed Breen
- Greg Case
- Marc Casper
- Ken Chenault
- Toby Cosgrove
- Larry Culp
- Sandy Cutler
- Aliko Dangote
- Richard Davis
- Jamie Dimon
- Mitchell Elegbe
- Roger Ferguson
- Michael Fisher
- Bill George
- Lynn Good
- Piyush Gupta
- Herbert Hainer
- Reed Hastings
- Marillyn Hewson
- Kazuo Hirai
- Hubert Joly
- KV Kamath
- Gail Kelly
- Jørgen Vig Knudstorp
- Ronnie Leten
- Maurice Lévy
- Matti Lievonen
- Mike Mahoney
- Nancy McKinstry
- Ivan Menezes
- Johan Molin
- James Mwangi
- Satya Nadella
- Shantanu Narayen
- Rodney O'Neal
- Flemming Ørnskov
- Jim Owens
- Sundar Pichai
- Henrik Poulsen
- Patrick Pouyanné
- Ken Powell
- Kasper Rørsted
- Gil Shwed
- Roberto Setúbal
- Feike Sijbesma
- Brad D. Smith
- Lars Rebien Sørensen
- Francesco Starace
- Lip-Bu Tan
- Johan Thijs
- David Thodey
- Kan Trakulhoon
- Masahiko Uotani
- Peter Voser
- Andrew Wilson
- Marjorie Yang
- About the Author
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright
