This book is about truly world class leadership, showing how the best CEOs think, adapt and approach challenges (never more relevant than in this extraordinary time).

Bancorp’s Richard Davis suggests “You just have to take everything as it is and isolate, manage it, isolate, manage it. IMO, most of the content isn’t too helpful to small business owners, except for the last chapter on personal effectiveness. With their vision statements, the most successful CEOs didn’t just raise aspiration levels, they changed the definition of success. It's far beyond theory, it gives real practical guidance - from direction setting to managing personal effectiveness.

Extensive screening distilled that group into an elite corps, sixty-seven of whom agreed to in-depth, multi-hour interviews. This means that I have a positive bias besides that I also started from the very beginning the activity of dissecting this business book.

The resulting book will demonstrate that while the role of CEO is unique within every organisation, it is surprisingly similar across companies even in disparate industries. The best CEOs ensure that time spent in the boardroom doesn’t become consumed with, as DBS’s Piyush Gupta puts it, “The board being a policeman on top of the business. An American football team, the star left tack is the most valuable player after the quarterback because they protect the quarterback from getting sacked or even injured by those he can’t see. Paljon hyviä selkeitä esimerkkejä valinnanteosta, rohkeudesta, walk the talk -esimerkkejä ja organisoitumisesta, nopeudesta, rutiineista ja muutamia hyviä jippoja, miten katsoa nykytoimintaa ulkopuolelta.

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CEO Excellence pulls back the curtain on how some of the world's greatest business leaders have achieved success. For CEOs in situations that require shaping and leading a large-scale transformation, we help them think about the overall aspiration, the high-impact change model they need to enable it, the role of both the CEO and top team in the transformation, and we help align and mobilize the organization to carry it out. Scott spent his early consulting years working on business strategy and operational topics until his life was turned upside down when his second child was born with profound special needs. I am still in process of reading it, but in every chapter I get the same thought in my mind - why the original sources of the business models (or very similar ones) that they are talking about are not being mentioned.

The CEO Excellence authors say a more apt representation is a helix (the double-stranded shape of DNA). It turned out that last Wednesday night's session went beyond just discussing feathers but also discussed broad and deep leadership style, as well as the business context.

While most of the information isn’t applicable to anyone besides CEOs, the book is worth reading for the tidbits of leadership lessons that can be extrapolated to much wider array of roles and responsibilities. Dewar, and her writing partners, sought to create a book which details the difference between okay-CEO's, and those that are truly great.High performing teams need professional development and upskilling to ensure they have the traits needed for this new world of work.