CEO Excellence

The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest

De: Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, Vikram Malhotra

Narrado por: Patricia Rodriguez

New York Times Bestseller • Wall Street Journal Bestseller

From McKinsey & Company, the world’s most influential management consulting firm, comes CEO Excellence, an insight-packed leadership book that reveals how the best CEOs think and act—based on interviews with elite leaders from Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, General Motors, Sony, and more.

Being a CEO at a major company is one of the toughest executive roles—Fortune?500 CEOs often face massive stakes, yet many fail early: 30% don’t last three years, and 40% are deemed ineffective within eighteen months. What separates successful CEOs from the rest?

The authors began with over 2,400 public-company CEOs, narrowed to an elite sixty-seven who participated in multi-hour interviews. Among them: Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan Chase), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Reed Hastings (Netflix), Kazuo Hirai (Sony), Ken Chenault (American Express), Mary Barra (GM), Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (Nestlé), and others—offering rich insight into CEO best practices, leadership strategy, and business execution.

Their candid conversations and McKinsey’s data reveal how the top CEOs use core mindsets and signature practices—across strategy, culture, talent, stakeholder engagement, board relations, and personal effectiveness—to deliver extraordinary results.

Practical, unprecedented in scope, and essential for leaders at every level, CEO Excellence is a management manual grounded in real-world CEO experience and leadership innovation.

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!!