CEO Excellence

The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest

By: Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, Vikram Malhotra

Narrated by: Patricia Rodriguez

New York Times Bestseller

Wall Street Journal Bestseller

From the world’s most influential management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, this is an insight-packed, revelatory look at how the best CEOs do their jobs based on extensive interviews with today’s most successful corporate leaders—including chiefs at Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, General Motors, and Sony.

Being a CEO at any of the world’s largest companies is among the most challenging roles in business. Billions, and even trillions, are at stake—and the fates of tens of thousands of employees often hang in the balance. Yet, even when “can’t miss” high-achievers win the top job, very few excel. Thirty percent of Fortune 500 CEOs last fewer than three years, and two out of five new CEOs are perceived to be failing within eighteen months.

For those who shoulder the burden of being the one on whom everyone counts, a manual for excellence is sorely needed.

To identify the 21st century’s best CEOs, the authors of CEO Excellence started with a pool of over 2400 public company CEOs. Extensive screening distilled that group into an elite corps, sixty-seven of whom agreed to in-depth, multi-hour interviews. Among those sharing their views: Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan Chase), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Reed Hastings (Netflix), Kazuo Hirai (Sony), Ken Chenault (American Express), Mary Barra (GM), and Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (Nestlé).

What came out of those frank, no-holds-barred conversations is a rich array of mindsets and actions that deliver outsized performance. Compelling, practical, and unprecedented in scope, CEO Excellence is a treasure trove of wisdom from today’s most elite business leaders.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2022 Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller and Vikram Malhotra (P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

Great concepts from various leaders.

I appreciated the diversity of thought, ideas, and concepts from all of the leaders that participated in this book. Loved it so much I bought the hardback book and the audible version. Well done.

Great book but not for leisurely reading

I love the book and I felt it highlighted several examples and storylines of successful CEOs that made an impact on the company that they worked for. There are a lot of CEOs in this book so it does get confusing. I do recommend reading it twice.

Great book

Excellent insights with practical examples and interviews. A must read. Highly recommend it for anyone wanting to learn

One of the BEST Business Books

Wow! Amazing research went into this. It’s nice to hear something that’s completely up-to-date. Well written and highly addictive. Thank you for the PDF. Just an amazing job all around. This is definitely a book that will be referenced and studied further. Great Job and thank you for writing this.

highly instructive for any leader

this book is a great assimilation of insights. it is well organized and structured. it has many, many vivid examples from successful ceos. I will keep coming back to it over my career.

Good examples & clear recommendations

Listening to the book was a great journey to my own memories and passed situations as a CEO, as well as a great lesson on how to scale things up and move forward beyond one’s leadership :)

Inspirational

Helped me to identify gaps in my current position and ways to improve and become a better CEO

Excellent work

The CEO role is carefully dissected and analyzed in a valuable and instructive way. Applicable to both large and small organizations. Highly recommend this, not only to CEOs or CEOs-in-training, but to everyone in a leadership role.

A must read

Every CEO should read this book and keep it as a quick reference. This book beautifully covers the mindset requirements of a CEO success.

Every CEO or aspiring CEO needs this info!

So much of the content in this book is very relevant & helpful to everyone in the C suite along with parts that would be helpful for all of those in the organization. I’ll be sending this book to other business owners & leaders. Excellent work!!