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Leadership Secrets of the World's Most Successful CEOs: 100 Top Executives Reveal the Management Strategies That Made Their Companies Great

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This is a great book. There's 100 different fairly short real life stories direct from a real impressive group of CEOs. I run a department of 65 people and am floored by how much I picked up that I can use from one book. The IKEA boss has a great chapter. She seemed like a great role model. So did William Lauder and the guy who runs RCA. Some of the chapters were a bit thin, but for the most part awesome book and take home value!

Fabulous! Bunch of smart and successful men and women we can all learn from. I bought 10 for all my managers. The CEO of Domino's Pizza is brilliant. So is that advertising guy. Very refreshing perspectives. Overall I was most impressed with the CEO's I never heard of.

Only book I have ever seen on leadership worth reading. I've read a lot about the author since reading his book. Pretty interesting guy. Also caught him on Fox a while back. Fascinating interview. Big ego. But he seems to back it up for the past couple decades from all I have read. Can't wait for his next book! Hope this is a series?

This book is like the Hall of Fame for Smart CEOs and advice. Easy read. Great little bits of inspiring insightful and valuable information. Information cuts right to the chase. Highly recommend this one!

Finally a book about leadership written and laid out in a way that makes an awful lot of sense. 100 smart, succesful CEOs tell you in their own voice their greatest leadership secret and a story or two about it. 5 minutes a chapter. He's got some big names like the current Secretary of Commerce, Lauder,
Ferragamo, and a bunch more. But more interesting are some of the highly successful entrepreneurs and CEOs you would not be familiar with, but are with their companies.This is a find. It's like crib notes for any manager.Tough part seems to be the find. Either it's already sold out everywhere or isn't anywhere?

Maybe the world's most successful as described by the title, however, this book is not in the same category. A dull, uninspired effort to translate an uninspiring message. A waste of your $'s.

I don't think that I personally learned anything from this book --
Management is a blend of many traits and values. I don't believe this book is a condensate of anything I have not read before and I do not believe it adds to the practice of management.

Eric Yaverbaum's title of this book is a bit of misnomer. This book is missing many key CEO's past and present such as Bill Gates and William Buffett (of course they are selling their own books and would not consent to a collection themed book) and not every CEO has been that successful (Carleton Fiorina of HP). Also these leadership "secrets" are not concealed from the world like an illuminati's handbook, but have been mentioned many times in many other books. Compare what is said here to what was written in Jim Collins "Good to Great" and you will find many repeating issues (this is actually a good thing since it reinforces good leadership criteria). And for fun you can read what each CEO has to say and see where each CEO fits in the Level 5 leadership hierarchy (or ignore this sentence if you have not read "Good to Great").

It is advantageous to read a multitude of CEO's opinion on leadership though. These aphorisms have been ignored by many, many leaders who are bent on total annihilation of a company due to their Dilbertesque politics (and/or misconceptions of reality) as opposed to a Machiavellian pragmatism. How many CEO's take the advice of Dr. Thomas F. Frist (HCA) of "Surround yourself with good people..."? I especially like Sy Sperling's "realize my own shortcomings" who made much with his shortcoming. This book is filled with tidbits of sage advice.

There is no easy way to achieve success in business and reading this book will not reveal a depth of salient information. However, it will put you or keep you on the correct path though with what should be considered business truisms about leadership (I always think of Voltaire's and Will Rogers quote about common sense not being common) that are obviously ignored by too many CEOs and company presidents.

Perfect book on the topic. Honestly I only read two thirds of this book, but based on the way it was written, you can sort of read what you choose to and disregard the rest. The author got 100 big names and companies. It's a pretty impressive list of CEO's. Absolutely worth reading!

Outrageous book. SMART...SMART...SMART...

The author seems to be more in the press than the CEO's. Guess he's good at pr! Good for him.