The Corner Office: How Top CEOs Made It and How You Can Too - Softcover

Bryant, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007432070 ISBN 13: 9780007432073

Publisher: HarperPress, 2011

Synopsis

What does it take to reach the top in business and to inspire others? Adam Bryant decided to answer this and other questions by sitting down with more than seventy CEOs and asking them how they do their jobs and the most important lessons they had learned as they rose through the ranks. Over the course of extraordinary interviews, they shared memorable stories and eye-opening insights. Bryant reveals the keys to success in the business world, including the five essential personal traits that all high performers exhibit - qualities that the CEOs themselves value most and that separate the rising stars from their colleagues. He also demystifies the art of leadership and shows how executives at the top of their game get the most out of others. Leadership is not a one-size-fits-all skill, and the CEOs offer different perspectives that will help anyone who seeks to be a more effective leader and employee. For aspiring executives - of all ages - "The Corner Office"...

About this title

Product Description:

Aspirational business book based on interviews with over 75 leading American CEOs.

What does it take to succeed in business and to inspire others? Adam Bryant of The New York Times sat down with more than seventy-five CEOs and asked them how they do their jobs and the most important lessons they learned as they rose through the ranks.

The Corner Office draws together lessons, memorable stories, and eye-opening insights from chief executives like Steven Ballmer (Microsoft), Carol Bartz (Yahoo), Jeffrey Katzenberg (DreamWorks), and Alan Mulally (Ford), as Bryant reveals the keys to success in the business world, including the five qualities CEOs value most in their employees, and shows how executives at the top of their game get the most out of others.

For aspiring executives, of any age, The Corner Office offers perspectives that will help anyone who seeks to be a more effective leader and employee, and a path to future success.

Review:

"Compelling advice for the aspiring executive.... The conversational format makes these valuable lessons easy to comprehend and digest, and readers are left with a new understanding of leadership--why it's important, how these experts have worked to attain it, and how they can do the same."--"Publishers Weekly""Adam Bryant's "The""Corner Office" is a great service - practical, well-written, chock full of insight and wisdom. Reading this book is like joining a dinner table with some of the best leaders in America, listening in as a master conversationalist leads a spirited discussion you cannot forget. A wonderful creation!"--Jim Collins, author of "Good to Great" and co-author of "Built to Last"""The Corner Office" is a modern management masterpiece. Adam Bryant distills and weaves together hundreds of gems from some of the most successful and intriguing executives on the planet. The result is one of the most delightful, readable, and useful business books I have read in years

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperPress
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0007432070
• ISBN 13: 9780007432073
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288