Prologue

In June 2005, I was having a drink on the terrace of the Four Seasons Hotel in Mexico City with Jack and Suzy Welch, hoping to get to know them a bit. The following day I was scheduled to talk onstage with Jack before a crowd of 2,000 people about how to succeed as a leader at a major event for managers and business people at the impressive Hippodrome of the Americas in Mexico City. As director of the HSM Group, the global multimedia management company that started Expomanagement and the World Business Forum, it was my pleasure and honor to travel the globe interviewing the world’s most prominent players and renowned experts in business and politics on the topics of leadership and management—people like Jack Welch.

In the past, these ...

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