A rare glimpse into the business worlds and personal lives of some of the most influential people on the planet.

"The Secrets of CEOs" reveals frank discussions with some of the West's most influential CEOs, such as Tesco's Sir Terry Leahy, Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP Group, former BP chief executive Lord Browne and Ben Verwaayen, formerly of BT. It also incorporates radical and thought-provoking comments from the heads of new corporate champions of India like Infosys, Tata and Wipro, leading Chinese and Russian companies such as Lenovo and Severstal, and US corporate giants including Google, Dell and News Corporation. This work helps readers to discover what it's really like to be a top CEO, what motivates and drives the world's top business leaders, how they really lead their businesses, the leadership skills and experience that you need to succeed in the new world of work, and how businesses and leaders are going to have to evolve in the future. Being a CEO should be one of the best jobs in the world, offering the chance to make a real difference. But real life for most CEOs is tough and many are finding it very demanding. Steve Tappin and Andrew Cave have interviewed over 150 of the world's leading CEOs at length to discover their thoughts on the reality of leadership, life and business. "The Secrets of CEOs" gives fascinating insights into where today's top leaders have come from and what motivates and drives them, as well as the best kind of apprenticeship to become a global leader. It also explores the secrets of dealing successfully with the five facts of life that will be critical to business success in the coming decade: profiting from hard globalization; decoding sustainability; surfing the third wave of the web; coping with a capital crunch; and, waging the first world war for talent. How do chief executives really run their businesses? How do they need to change to ensure that their companies are successful and sustainable in the 21st century? And is it possible to have career success and a happy personal life? Discover the answers to these questions and much more in this provocative and stimulating book.

"Based on extensive interviews with today's . . . corporate leaders, this look at how the best CEOs do their jobs focuses on the mindsets and actions that foster an environment of excellence"--

A reexamination of the major economic theories of the past two hundred years discusses how long-dead, famous economists such as Adam Smith and others would handle today's economic problems.

"The Secrets of CEOs" reveals frank discussions with some of the West's most influential CEOs, such as Tesco's Sir Terry Leahy, Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP Group, former BP chief executive Lord Browne and Ben Verwaayen, formerly of BT. It also incorporates radical and thought-provoking comments from the heads of new corporate champions of India like Infosys, Tata and Wipro, leading Chinese and Russian companies such as Lenovo and Severstal, and US corporate giants including Google, Dell and News Corporation. This work helps readers to discover what it's really like to be a top CEO, what motivates and drives the world's top business leaders, how they really lead their businesses, the leadership skills and experience that you need to succeed in the new world of work, and how businesses and leaders are going to have to evolve in the future. Being a CEO should be one of the best jobs in the world, offering the chance to make a real difference. But real life for most CEOs is tough and many are finding it very demanding. Steve Tappin and Andrew Cave have interviewed over 150 of the world's leading CEOs at length to discover their thoughts on the reality of leadership, life and business. "The Secrets of CEOs" gives fascinating insights into where today's top leaders have come from and what motivates and drives them, as well as the best kind of apprenticeship to become a global leader. It also explores the secrets of dealing successfully with the five facts of life that will be critical to business success in the coming decade: profiting from hard globalization; decoding sustainability; surfing the third wave of the web; coping with a capital crunch; and, waging the first world war for talent. How do chief executives really run their businesses? How do they need to change to ensure that their companies are successful and sustainable in the 21st century? And is it possible to have career success and a happy personal life? Discover the answers to these questions and much more in this provocative and stimulating book.

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August Turak is a successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, and award-winning author who attributes much of his success to living and working alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey for seventeen years. As a frequent monastic guest, he learned firsthand from the monks as they grew an incredibly successful portfolio of businesses. Service and selflessness are at the heart of the 1,500-year-old monastic tradition's remarkable business success. It is an ancient though immensely relevant economic model that preserves what is positive and productive about capitalism while transcending its ethical limitations and internal contradictions. Combining vivid case studies from his thirty-year business career with intimate portraits of the monks at work, Turak shows how Trappist principles can be successfully applied to a variety of secular business settings and to our personal lives as well. He demonstrates that monks and people like Warren Buffett are wildly successful not despite their high principles but because of them. Turak also introduces other "transformational organizations" that share the crucial monastic business strategies so critical for success.