The CEO Chronicles: Lessons From the Top about Inspiration and Leadership [Hardcover]

Glenn Rifkin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 25, 1999

Offers uplifting stories of success and sobering tales of secong-guessing.

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About the Author

Glenn Rifkin is a veteran business journalist and author based in Boston. Since 1989, Rifkin has been a regular contributor to The New York Times business section, covering the high-tech industry in the Boston area and around the country. Rifkin writes extensively on marketing strategies for Strategy & Business, and has contributed regularly to Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and Forbes ASAP.

Rifkin is the co-author, along with Sam I. Hill, of Radical Marketing: From Harvard to Harley, Lessons From Ten That Broke the Rules and Made It Big. In addition, Rifkin co-authored, with George Harrar, The Ultimate Entrepreneur: The Story of Ken Olsen and Digital Equipment Corporation, which made several regional best-seller lists.

Rifkin's work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, FORTUNE, Working Woman, Yankee, Billboard, Playboy, Runner's World, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, and Upside magazine. He has been a regular commentator on business and technology for WBUR, the National Public Radio station in Boston.

Douglas Matthews is a San Diego-based freelance writer with twelve years' experience writing and producing business-to-business and marketing communications that help companies educate, inform, and motivate their customers, employees, and other key constituencies.

Matthews' clients include a diverse range of entrepreneurial firms, including TEC, the world's leading CEO education and development organization; Mail Boxes Etc., the largest franchiser of small business services; and the Kauffman Foundation Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, a division of the prestigious Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation that works with fast-growth entrepreneurs. Matthews has also ghostwritten books and articles for several prominent management consultants.

Throughout his career, Matthews has interviewed hundreds of CEOs in companies of all sizes and in all industries, giving him a unique perspective on the personalities of--and the issues that shape--today's business leaders.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 270 pages
• Publisher: Knowledge Universe; 1st edition (November 25, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1888232234
• ISBN-13: 978-1888232233
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,333,408 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great stories from the top real businesses, January 21, 2000

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Danica Remy (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The CEO Chronicles: Lessons From the Top about Inspiration and Leadership (Hardcover)

This book really captured the kind of personal and professional challenges that real CEO's experience. It was refreshing to step into a series of stories from the kind of business leaders that truly run american business today.

Great read that allowed me to skip thru business stories in managable chunks.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A realistic view into the life of a CEO., February 28, 2000

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Jim Canfield "President/COO Renaissance Execu... (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The CEO Chronicles: Lessons From the Top about Inspiration and Leadership (Hardcover)

Forget the celebrity hype often associated with being a CEO that is presented in most business magazines. The CEO Chronicles allows a look at CEOs that shows them as they are: real people dealing with real issues. This book acurately portrays the struggles and the triumphs associated with owning and running a business. This book is a great way for business owners and CEOs to see they are not alone and for their employees to better understand the complexities associated with life at the top.

Jim Canfield

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, March 21, 2000

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Maureen - See all my reviews

This review is from: The CEO Chronicles: Lessons From the Top about Inspiration and Leadership (Hardcover)

A rather formulaic presentation of dozens of today's top CEO's, their strategies and their visions. Each CEO 'talks' for 3 or 4 pages in a very structured manner, and there's a little box for each showing a mini-resume of him/her. Amazing to me were the number coming from smaller colleges and NOT having MBAs. Also the very high proportion working 65+ weeks and married still!Many weave childhood, family, and young-adult work experience into how they approach work and that aspect is interesting.Nicely done, but not one of those books that absolutely blows you over (perhaps need to read Peter Drucker for that, according to these guys).