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Nightly Business Report Presents Lasting Leadership: What You Can Learn from the Top 25 Business People of our Times Mukul Pandya, Robbie Shell, Susan Warner, Sandeep Junnarkar and Jeffrey Brown 
 Format: Hardcover, 288pp. ISBN: 9780131531185 Publisher: Wharton School Publishing Pub. Date: October 12, 2004 Average Customer Review: 
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In this book, two of the world's most respected sources of business insight come together to select and profile the 25 most influential businesspeople of the past quarter century. These incisive profiles teach specific lessons you can use to discover, refine, and nurture your own leadership style... achieve breakthrough results... and accelerate your career progress. The team: Nightly Business Report, the United States' #1 daily TV business news program, and Knowledge@Wharton, The Wharton School's online journal of research and business analysis. Together, they offer powerful new insights into familiar faces--and reveal the passion and brilliance that allowed less-well-known leaders to achieve the extraordinary. From corporate culture to brand management, risk-taking to pricing, this book's insights won't just help you: they'll inspire you. What outstanding leaders do, and how they do it Actionable insights for achieving your own form of greatness Building corporate culture that can withstand anything What you can learn from Southwest's Herb Kelleher and J&J's James Burke Key attributes of lasting leadership Giving voice to customers, giving voice to truth Getting smarter, faster Case studies in building organizations that learn--and act Reinventing your business: when it's time, how to do it Lessons from the master: Steve Jobs Discovering underserved markets--and serving them profitably Mohammed Yunus: Profiting from entrepreneurship in the world's poorest communities
The greatest business leaders of our generation How they achieved the impossible What you can learn from them How to use those lessons to supercharge your career 25 compelling profiles from two of the world's leading sources of business insight: Nightly Business Report and The Wharton School's Knowledge@Wharton 25 extraordinary leaders, 25 incisive profiles: Andy Grove, Intel Bill Gates, Microsoft John Bogle, The Vanguard Group Steve Jobs, Apple & Pixar Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines Sam Walton, Wal-Mart Jack Welch, GE Jeff Bezos, Amazon Mary Kay Ash, Mary Kay Michael Dell, Dell Peter F. Drucker Alan Greenspan Oprah Winfrey, Harpo, Inc. George Soros, Soros Fund Management James Burke, Johnson & Johnson Lee Iacocca, Chrysler Peter Lynch, Fidelity Investments Frederick Smith, FedEx Mohammed Yunus, Grameen Bank Ted Turner, Turner Broadcasting Lou Gerstner, IBM & RJR Nabisco Charles Schwab, Charles Schwab Richard Branson, Virgin William George, Medtronic About the Authors Written by Knowledge@Wharton's Editor Mukul Pandya and Managing Editor Robbie Shell, with additional reporting and writing by Susan Warner, Sandeep Junnarkar, and Jeff Brown. Mukul Pandya is editor and director of Knowledge@Wharton, a web-based journal of research and business analysis published by The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. A winner of four awards for investigative journalism, Mr. Pandya has more than twenty years of experience as a writer and editor. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, Time Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other publications. He coauthored Knowledge@Wharton on Building Corporate Value. Mr. Pandya, who has an M.A. in economics from the University of Bombay, lives in Ewing, NJ, with his wife and daughter. Robbie Shell, the managing editor of Knowledge@Wharton, has worked as a business reporter and editor for national news services, newspapers, and magazines throughout her career. She has covered both the White House and U.S. Supreme Court and taught journalism at the University of Virginia. Her freelance work most recently appeared in The Wall Street Journal. A graduate of Princeton University, she lives in Wynnewood, PA, with her husband and two sons. Nightly Business Report is produced by NBR Enterprises and distributed by American Public Television. It's broadcast by PBS stations nationally and available in 90% of U.S. television households. "Lasting Leadership" is based on NBR's Special Edition of January 19, 2004, celebrating its 25th anniversary. Find Items On Similar Subjects  The Leader of the Future: New Visions, Strategies, and Practices for the Next Era
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