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.
Reviews
A satisfying handbook for future moguls
This work will help leaders everywhere-not just CEOs-be more effective.
Show(s) how the best CEOs think and adapt in surprisingly similar ways across industries
Goes behind the corporate curtain... a master class in leadership
(A) rare leadership book that takes an analytical look
Effective and inspirational
Full of highlights...one of those great books that will be read for a long time
Remarkable...Any smart CEO looking to not just survive but thrive would do well to read and heed this book's insights.
A book for those who want to sharpen their skills in leading organizations to higher levels.
Valuable...provides leaders at all career stages insight on how to complement and enhance their respective styles.
Plunges into the minds of the world's finest CEOs, reaches deep into their psyches, [and] retrieves the rarest pearls of wisdom.
Illuminating and even inspiring...strategies I'm excited to teach in my leadership courses at Harvard.
A must-read for everyone who is (or wants to be) a CEO...Very informative and highly enjoyable.
CEO Excellence pulls back the curtain on how some of the world's greatest business leaders have achieved success. Readers from the classroom to the boardroom will find valuable lessons they can apply to their own careers.
A how-to guide for aspiring leaders, CEO Excellence provides real-world, practical examples of how real leaders lead through times of crisis and calm. A must-read for anyone that aspires to lead corporations large and small.