Business Leaders and Success: 55 Top Business Leaders and How They Achieved Greatness (Paperback)

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Product Description

A detailed look inside the minds and methods of 55 legendary business leaders

Behind every tale of breakthrough success is the visionary man or woman who made it happen. Profiles in Business Success examines the lives of 55 giants of the business world and reveals how they overcame obstacles, forged their own management philosophies, and drove their companies to the top.

This inspirational book helps business professionals understand and implement proven methods for innovation, growth, and achievement. Readers of every age and interest will learn:

• How Gap CEO Mickey Drexler built a $9 billion-a-year retail business by listening to 12-year-olds
• How Charles Walgreen Sr. turned a corner drugstore into one of the first multibillion-dollar chains
• How eBay founder Pierre Omidyar changed shopping forever--to help his wife find Pez dispensers

From the Back Cover

Discover what it takes to become a global business leader and the success secrets you can use on your own road to the top

Look behind every breakthrough business success and you'll find personal stories of individuals persevering against monumental odds. Profiles in Business Success provides a revealing examination of 55 such stories and shows what it really takes to succeed in business.

Covering a wide range of industry leaders, this behind-the-scenes book details:

• How Oprah Winfrey became a billionaire media mogul by refusing to settle for "good enough"
• How Gap CEO Mickey Drexler built a $9 billion-a-year retail business by ignoring self-pronounced experts to heed the advice of 12-year-olds
• How Walt Disney changed the face of entertainment by paying attention to everything except making money

What made Nike cofounder Bill Bowerman push forward when shoe companies badly rejected his revolutionary sneaker design? How did eBay founder Pierre Omidyar see what everyone else missed? Business Leaders & Success answers these questions and more as it examines how 55 innovators reached the pinnacle of success in the competitive business arena.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (September 29, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071426809
• ISBN-13: 978-0071426800
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #540,138 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good stories but you can get the information for free., March 6, 2004

By	ReedFloren.com (ReedFloren.com) - See all my reviews

I love the Leaders & Success page in Investor's Business Daily however I feel that creating a book with just leaders & success articles from past issues (all of these I am sure you can find via investors.com's archive search, which is free) is a terrible way to go about it. I bought this book when it first came out under the impression that it was never before seen Leaders and Success type articles.... I was wrong, and very disappointed.

The one thing that I like about this book is they have their best leaders & success articles compiled in a book format for easy pleasure reading, and at $8.78 at it is a time saving bargain.

Reed Floren

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A little bit more than who's who, but definitely not how they achieved greatness, November 6, 2005

By	ServantofGod - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

Simple arithmetic and you know it's stupid to expect much from a 227 content book that attempts to tell the success stories and forumlas of 55 business leaders. Definitely everyone of them deserves its own biography instead of an average 4.13 pages. So I had lowered my standard before I read it. Still I had been quite disappointed. All passages were columns published previously on IBD written by different reporters that not only the writing style but the focus on individual leaders fluctuated much between hard data/history and success formula, primarly on the former. I am sorry that I could gain little knowledge/insight (that I really wanted to learn "how" they succeeded) during the reading. I felt even worse after reading from the previous reviewer that the content had been available on the net. In short, please give this book a pass!