Book description
Candid conversations with top leaders around the world on how they approached pitvotal moments in their careers
No Fear of Failure?offers insightful, candid conversations with some of the world's top leaders in business, politics, education, and philanthropy?each giving a first-person account of how they approached crucial, career defining moments. Gary Burnison, CEO of Korn/Ferry International, the world's largest executive recruiting firm, sits down one-on-one with a highly select and elite corps, and together they openly discuss how they handled (often very publicly) war, economic downturn, corporate turnover, and even retirement. Together these world-class leaders show the risks one must be willing to take, as well as the vision, resilience, and compassion necessary to lead.
Includes original interviews with Michael Bloomberg, Carlos Slim, Eli Broad, Indra Nooyi, Drew Gilpin Faust, Anne Mulcahy, Vincente Fox, Lt. General Franklin L. "Buster" Hagenbeck, Coach John McKissick, Liu Chuanzhi, Daniel Vasella, and Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
Explores the common traits great leaders exhibit: vision, compassion, resilience, competitiveness, purpose, humility, team-building skills, entrepreneurial spirit, perseverance, self-awareness, empowerment, and being a catalyst
Taking readers into executive suites, government offices, battlefields, and football fields, No Fear of Failure shows how great leaders make lasting impact.
#7New York Times Best Seller (Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous)
#13New York Times Best Seller (Hardcover Business)
#5Wall Street Journal Best Seller (Hardcover Business)
#3USA Today Best Seller (Money)
#17Publishers Weekly Best Seller (Hardcover Nonfiction)
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Praise for No Fear of Failure
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION: LEADING THE WAY
- Chapter One: MICHAEL BLOOMBERG: EMPOWER
- Chapter Two: ELI BROAD: COMPETITOR
- Chapter Three: INDRA NOOYI: PURPOSE
- Chapter Four: VICENTE FOX: HUMILITY
- Chapter Five: LIEUTENANT GENERAL FRANKLIN L. “BUSTER” HAGENBECK: COMPASSION
- Chapter Six: COACH JOHN MCKISSICK: BUILDING TEAMS
- Chapter Seven: CARLOS SLIM: ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT
- Chapter Eight: LIU CHUANZHI: PERSEVERANCE
- Chapter Nine: DANIEL VASELLA: SELF-AWARENESS
- Chapter Ten: DREW GILPIN FAUST: CATALYST
- Chapter Eleven: OLLI-PEKKA KALLASVUO: COURAGE
- Chapter Twelve: ANNE MULCAHY: RESILIENCE
- EPILOGUE: LEARNING AND LEADING
- NOTES
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- INDEX
Product information
- Title: No Fear of Failure: Real Stories of How Leaders Deal with Risk and Change
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2011
- Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
- ISBN: 9781118000786
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