What makes great leaders great : management lessons from icons who changed the world /
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New York :
McGraw-Hill,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Managing organizations
- Harness the power of a business mission : learning from bill gates
- Create customer value : learning from Lou Gerstner
- Make effective decisions : learning from Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
- Recognize the true nature of the problem : learning from M. C. Escher
- Make the right compromise : learning from King Solomon
- Just do it! : keep fine-tuning the right strategy : learning from Phil Knight
- Structure your organization around the customer! : learning from Michael Dell
- Be productive : learning from Frederick Winslow Taylor
- Demand effective management : learning from Warren Buffett
- Understand profit, strive for independence : learning from Coco Chanel
- Harness information : learning from Paul Julius Reuter
- Understand your sphere of action : learning from James Wilson
- Recognize inflection points and utilize performance indicators : learning from Andy Grove
- Secure feedback : learning from James Watt
- Managing innovation
- Implement ideas : learning from Steve Jobs
- Remember, innovations are rarely welcomes with open arms : learning from Gustave Eiffel
- Question every assumption : learning from Nicolaus Copernicus
- Innovate systematically : learning from Thomas Edison
- Exploit success : learning from Dietrich Mateschitz
- Practice purposeful abandonment : learning from Herbert von Karajan
- Practice creative destruction : learning from Joseph Schumpeter
- Combine existing know-how into something new : learning from Ettore Bugatti
- Exploit opportunities arising from new technologies : learning from Larry page
- Recognize the future that has already happened : learning from Ray Kroc
- Managing people
- Focus on a single objective : learning from Michelangelo
- Be results driven : learning from Michael Schumacher
- Draw on your strengths : learning from Albert Einstein
- Manage by objectives : learning from Gustav Mahler
- Plan meticulously : learning from Napoleon Bonaparte
- Be true to your own values : learning from Winston Churchill
- Surround yourself with good people : learning from Jack Welch
- Create a culture of effectiveness : learning from Herb Kelleher
- Nurture and develop people : learning from David Packard
- Invest in training : learning from Alexander von Humboldt
- Seek wise dialogue partners : learning from Camille Pissarro and Paul Cézanne
- Clearly define jobs and assignments : learning from general George Patton
- Establish effective cooperation : learning from Joe Biden
- Recognize the most important promotion : learning from Barack Obama
- Embody integrity : learning from general George Marshall
- Harness the potential of women : learning from Hillary Clinton
- Make clever use of your time : learning from Stephen Hawking
- Perfect your own working methods : learning from Benjamin Franklin
- Create trust : learning from Levi Strauss
- Make a life plan : what will your most important contribution be? : learning from Peter F. Drucker
- Be demanding of yourself and strive for perfection : learning from Giuseppe Verdi
- Find meaning, then use it! : learning from Viktor Frankl
- Harness the power of discipline : learning from Thomas Mann
- Motivate yourself : learning from Roger Federer
- Derive enjoyment from your profession : learning from Leonard Bernstein
- Think constructively : learning from Niki Lauda
- Act responsibly : learning from Hippocrates
- Foster creativity all life long : learning from Pablo Picasso
- Assume responsibility : learning from Harry Truman
- Look after yourself : learning from Jamie Oliver
- Commit yourself to more than just your own wellbeing : learning from Muhammad Yunus.