The book is the record of candid interviews with 70 CEO's. The interviewer is a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and deputy national editor for the New York Times, and the former business editor of Newsweek. There is no shortage of airbrushed biographies of "outstanding CEOs" but this is different. It is filled with their insights, the hard lessons learned on the way up and the qualities they really value in others. Everyone in a leadership role should hear what they say - parts will confirm what you have thought, parts will challenge you, and parts will surprise you.

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3. Succeeding
 Passionate curiosity
 Battle‐hardened confidence
 How you failed in past what you did about it
 Grandma and the snake in the shed
 Keeping many balls in the air
 Where you are is not who you are
 9/10 from hard backgrounds
 Coping with Dyslexia
 What did you take off your CV?

4. Succeeding
 Team smarts
 Built on 1‐0n‐1 interactions
 What are you the CEO of?
 Simple mindset
 Simplifying the complex is the CEO's job
 3 slides 3 points
 What are two 2 or 3 levers?
 The 2‐hour applicant test
 Be brief, be bright, be gone

5. Succeeding
 Fearlessness
 Pressure to make decisions dearth of date‐
greatest surprise
 Daily say yes to what don't want to do & what is
difficult
 Bad metaphors
 Career ladder / path
 Obstacle course with plenty of other players
 Get selling experience
 Grow where you are planted

6. Managing
 Surprise!
 The Drucker manager
 Didn’t buy a dog to bark for it
 The Nordstom scarf knot
 No one cares what you are feeling
 The kids in economy
 Time management
 Move the needle
 1 hour and 10 minutes
 No Blackberrys on weekends

7. Managing
 Meetings
 Why are we here?
 Clear Rules
 Involve everyone
 Keep it light
 Interviewing
 Let’s talk about you
 Women, family and passion
 Strategic interviewing

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