Carolyn Dewar 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 of six books, including Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Create Ultimate Competitive Advantage. Vikram (Vik) Malhotra 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.
New York Times Bestseller
Wall Street Journal Bestseller
"Interviews CEOs (refreshingly, not just the usual suspects), finds
out what makes them tick, and formulates a set of maxims and
observations...A satisfying handbook for future moguls."
--Kirkus Reviews
"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."
--Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO, and cofounder of
Blackstone
"Leadership is something you learn first by watching and then by
doing--and the best leaders never stop learning, which is why this
is a book for those who want to sharpen their skills in leading
organizations to higher levels."
- Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg
Philanthropies, and mayor of New York, 2002-2013
"Do we need another book on leadership at the top? Yes! Having
created the world's first school for incumbent CEOs and studied
thousands over forty-five years, I can confirm that Dewar, Keller,
and Malhotra provide valuable fresh insight. Instead of selecting
clients or cronies to study, they were guided by analytic screening
of performance on many key dimensions. Their conclusions show how
CEOs shape culture and are shaped by it. By objectively examining
character and context together, they transcend vague lists of
virtues and reveal that leadership impact is very different from
the boastful, backslapping self-promotion we see too often. This
book provides leaders at all career stages insight on how to
complement and enhance their respective styles."
--Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Founder and President of the Chief
Executive Leadership Institute and Senior Associate Dean for
Leadership Studies at the Yale School of Management
"McKinsey's access to the best corporate CEOs has produced a
remarkable and highly readable analysis of what makes leaders' jobs
so difficult in this age of constant social media focus,
shareholder activism, great board involvement, enhanced ESG needs,
growing global challenges, and increased government oversight. Any
smart CEO looking to not just survive but thrive would do well to
read and heed this book's insights."
--David Rubenstein, co-founder and co-executive chairman of The
Carlyle Group and New York Times bestselling author of
How to Lead
"Illuminating and even inspiring...Perhaps surprisingly, what
stands out in this book's spotlighting of top CEOs' varied
approaches is their willingness to be selfless, to let others
shine. Their strategies for building up team members, and the ways
they not only craft a vision but make those around them
collaborators in it are ones I'm excited to teach in my leadership
courses at Harvard."
-Frances Frei, coauthor of Unleashed: The Unapologetic
Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You
"This is a remarkable book by three top-notch business gurus. Vik,
Scott, and Carolyn have taken a plunge into the minds of the
world's finest CEOs, reached deep into their psyches, retrieved the
rarest pearls of wisdom, and strung them together nicely in a most
readable narrative. This is not just a book but a veritable guide
to becoming a complete leader and leading a complete life. A must
read for everyone in the world of ideas and enterprises."
- Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries
"This is truly a must-read for everyone who is (or wants to be) a
CEO. In a very informative and highly enjoyable style, Vikram,
Carolyn, and Scott share leadership wisdom that applies to every
conceivable business. I only wish I had the benefit of this
wonderful book years ago."
-Jason Flom, former Chairman and CEO of Atlantic Records, Virgin
Records, and Capitol Music Group
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