Master CEOs
Insights from Australia's Leading CEOs
1st Edition
Published on 12. May 2016
384 pages
978-1-118-32028-0 (ISBN)
Description
Filled with insights from leading Australian CEOs, MasterCEOs taps into the thoughts of Australia's leading
chief executive officers or managing directors in an effort tounderstand why they are such outstanding leaders, and why thecompanies they run have delivered above-average results. MasterCEOs is not only about management -- it also delivers avery strong message on leadership.
* To be interviewed for the book, the CEO had to be in charge oftheir company for at least 10 years and delivered shareholders areturn greater than the share market in that period.
* CEOs covered include: Gerry Harvey from Harvey Norman, PaulLittle from Toll Holdings, Graham Turner from Flight Centre, DavidSimmons from Hills Industries and many more.
* All new interviews, never before published.
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Content
Foreword vii
About the authors xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction xv
1 Selecting the Master CEOs 1
2 Tough medicine
Dr Edmund Bateman, Primary Health Care 7
3 David to Goliath
Andrew Reitzer, Metcash 31
4 The best mistake I ever made
John Rubino, Monadelphous Group 57
5 Making the world Little
Paul Little, Toll Holdings 79
6 The Hills are alive with the sound of music
David Simmons, Hills Industries 105
7 SuperSonic
Dr Colin Goldschmidt, Sonic Healthcare 131
8 Building a Kingdom
Wal King, Leighton Holdings 161
9 Banks, boats and Bundy
Ron Hancock, Wide Bay Australia 185
10 Soaring high
Graham Turner, Flight Centre 211
11 A bloody miracle
Brian McNamee, CSL 243
12 Out of Africa
Pat Grier, Ramsay Health Care 269
13 Mining for values
Owen Hegarty, Oxiana 295
14 Go Gerry, go, go, go
Gerry Harvey, Harvey Norman 323
Conclusion 355
Index 359
