Being fully in the moment applies as well to home life, and the best CEOs communicate with their families about the pluses and minuses, and proactively protect vacation time. They are humble, and humility is ‘freedom from pride and arrogance’ and is ‘not thinking less of yourself; it’s thinking of yourself less’ as aptly described in this book. A group of high performers only becomes truly high performing if its members are complementary and connected to one another, not simply working side-by-side. The CEO Excellence authors say a more apt representation is a helix (the double-stranded shape of DNA).

People feel pressure to conform to the group yet the power or the group comes from leveraging the individuality of its members. Bancorp’s Richard Davis says a good CEO will sit back and be the conductor and enjoy the music themselves, “and not get so caught up in how they look or whether it’s going well, but just love it. With his new mantra of 'growth mindset' for the company, Satya Nadella implored Microsoft employees to shift from being ‘know-it-alls’ to ‘learn-it-alls. Microsoft’s Satya Nadella decided to adopt a ‘growth mindset’ as the company mantra after broad input from his team.Scott is a cofounder of Digital Divide Data and one of a few hundred people in history known to have traveled to every country in the world. Every chapter begins with a beautiful quote, followed by crisp outline and discussion on salient points. Our Growth Faculty Pass gives you access to the best minds and brilliant ideas with weekly live, interactive, virtual masterclasses. The company – achieving industry leadership through creating best practices and beating the competition. They really packed in quite a bit of anecdotal evidence for their claims, which resonated quite a bit more.

Exquisitamente estructurado, este libro abarca las perspectivas comunes en aquellos grandes directores generales de cara a 6 temas importantes (Visión, Formación de Consejo, diferenciar los temas “duros y suaves”), hay libros completos para cada uno de estos temas, el valor agregado acá está en la fortaleza del resumen y en la coherencia que se obtiene al tocar todo esto con un único hilo conector: la consolidación de parte de los consultores de McKinsey. For example, IDB’s Lilach Asher-Topilsky says it’s very important to have the best CFO that you can get. Overall really fascinating insight into a job that sounds like it can be lonely but incredibly rewarding. It will show why a brilliant CEO can have such an immense impact, and demonstrate how to model yourself and your performance on the very best – so that your turn to lead comes sooner, and is more successful. 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.Top CEOs encourage the chair to regularly evaluate board performance, often using an outside consultant. The authors do a great job of boiling down what I am sure was a mountain of data to an easily readable format that is informative for leaders everywhere not just in the top spot of organizations. We support new CEO transition planning, from strategic aspiration-setting and developing the CEO’s transformation agenda, to the tactics of planning the first 100 days. After the opening private session, the best CEOs ensure the rest of the board agenda includes forward-looking topics in addition to fiduciary ones.

I started reading more about all kinds of subjects, including unrelated subjects, to combine the unrelated things into something new – not only in technical innovation but also in business. Are they surrounded by others who are aligned on a common direction and who display the desired mindsets and behaviours?

The best CEOs often dig back into a company’s history to find out what originally made it successful and then take that central idea and expand it in ways that open up new opportunities.

I really liked the style of this book as each chapter identified 4 items which then drove the narrative; very consistent and sensible. I have always been interested in what is the actual job that the CEO does, and this book explains is great. Intuit former CEO Brad Smith’s advice to new CEOs is to have "a vision that is so clear a leader doesn’t have to do anything but get out of the way.All chapters in it are internally oriented even though today's business and in the future will be oriented to collaboration between businesses. The most successful companies reduce administrative, sales, and labour costs more deeply than others, and in so doing achieve 25% more productivity improvement than their industry median over a 10-year period.