Book description
Leadership wisdom from a former CEO and Self-Made Billionaire
With corporations now associated in the public mind primarily with greed and unethical practices, it's more important than ever for leaders to move the focus back onto integrity, honesty, and doing the right thing. Mort Mandel, a CEO whom Peter Drucker esteemed in the same category as Jack Welch and Andy Grove, has spent the past seven decades mixing business and philanthropy, to the great enhancement of both. In this book Mandel shows how leaders can create lives of both meaning and profitability.
Contains Mort Mandel's fascinating story (including his work with Peter Drucker, and the painful sale of Mandel's company)
Provides both inspiration and lessons on the leadership skills such as building culture, customer relationships and execution that are necessary to achieve crossover success
Shows how running a business and a nonprofit made Mandel a better entrepreneur and a self-made billionaire
The book is filled with lessons learned from how Mort Mandel built a $3 billion company from scratch, yet also managed to spend up to a third of his time in the social sector, building and supporting nonprofit organizations.
Table of contents
- Cover
- More Praise for It’s All About Who
- A WARREN BENNIS BOOK
- Books in the Warren Bennis Signature Series
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- EDITOR’S NOTE
- FOREWORD
- PROLOGUE
- CHAPTER 1 It's All About Who
- CHAPTER 2 The ABC's of People
- CHAPTER 3 Building a Rich, Deep, and Ethical Culture
- CHAPTER 4 What Happens When You Ignore Culture, People, and Values
- CHAPTER 5 What I Learned from Peter Drucker
- CHAPTER 6 Killing Yourself for Your Customer
- CHAPTER 7 Principles Make a Difference
- CHAPTER 8 Factbooks: Key to Personal Discipline
- CHAPTER 9 Why We Swung Our Acquisitions Bat to Hit Singles, Not Home Runs
- CHAPTER 10 Lighting Candles
- CHAPTER 11 A Gospel of Wealth
- CHAPTER 12 Using Business Ideas in the Social Sector
- CHAPTER 13 An Olive Tree
- CHAPTER 14 Yes, I Can!
- CHAPTER 15 Some Beacons to Steer By
- CHAPTER 16 If I Could Do It Over Again . . .
- APPENDIX
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- THE AUTHORS
- Index
Product information
- Title: It's All About Who You Hire, How They Lead...and Other Essential Advice from a Self-Made Leader
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2012
- Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
- ISBN: 9781118379882
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