CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest

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In service of this structure, it felt like the authors were reaching a bit to provided quantitative evidence for their various claims, which did not exactly land with the credulity they expected. Fellow employees – feeling a sense of belonging, caring for one another, and doing the right thing for the group. Very disappointed because there is nothing really new like before when “Good to Great” went viral, almost every nose talked about it because of the conceptual framework it carried. The entire premise of the analysis rests on an amalgam of these interviews, yet the quotes are mostly fleeting and parochial.

While skillful synthesis, the constant change of reference industries / businesses felt jarring, if not sketchy. There are six main areas addressed in the book detailing what CEOs deal with and 3 chapters in each area taking a deeper dive into each characteristic and providing examples from highly successful CEOs. Second, I am really disappointed in the 6 Mindsets, which are not new and we have often understood each of them from previous management thinkers from the time of Peter Drucker, Igor Ansoff, Ted Levitt, Richard Rumelt or others. After the opening private session, the best CEOs ensure the rest of the board agenda includes forward-looking topics in addition to fiduciary ones.Evidenced examples that serve as an amazing guidance to the ones who have a CEO role in a growing company.

A Mechanical Engineer by training, he spent most of his early consulting years working on business strategy and operational topics, until his life was turned upside down by his second child who was born with profound special needs. Should any firm or individual rather decline at this point, they are simply taken out of the running.Carolyn is a Canadian and British citizen, and currently lives in San Francisco with her two children and husband.