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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.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherScribner
- Publication dateMarch 15 2022
- File size12850 KB
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Wall Street Journal Bestseller
“Breaks it all down…a master class in leadership…knowing the six mindsets of the most visionary businesses could mean the difference between sinking and swimming for business leaders.”
—Business Insider
“Impressive…an important new book.”
—Barron’s
“Interviews CEOs (refreshingly, not just the usual suspects), finds out what makes them tick, and formulates a set of maxims and observations…A satisfying handbook for future moguls.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Remarkable…Any smart CEO looking to not just survive but thrive would do well to read and heed this book’s insights.”
—David Rubenstein, co-founder and co-executive chairman of The Carlyle Group and New York Times bestselling author of How to Lead
“Pulls back the curtain on how some of the world’s greatest business leaders have achieved success…Valuable lessons.”
—Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO, and cofounder of Blackstone --This text refers to the hardcover edition.
About the Author
Scott Keller is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company. He is the author of six books, including Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Create Ultimate Competitive Advantage.
Vikram (Vik) Malhotra is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company where he has worked since 1986. He has served on McKinsey’s Board of Directors and as McKinsey’s Managing Partner of the Americas. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.
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- Publisher : Scribner (March 15 2022)
- Language : English
- File size : 12850 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 379 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #98,660 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #236 in Professional & Technical Management
- #238 in Business Management (Kindle Store)
- #286 in Leadership in Business Management
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About the authors
Scott is a Senior Partner in McKinsey’s Southern California office, having joined the firm in 1995. He co-leads the firm’s global CEO and Board Excellence service line.
A Mechanical Engineer by training, he spent most of his early consulting years working on business strategy and operational topics, until his life was turned upside down by his second child who was born with profound special needs. After taking time off to tend to his family, Scott returned to McKinsey with the clarity to bring the best of psychology, social science, and the field of human potential into the workplace.
Ten years later, Scott coauthored the Inc.com bestseller, Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage (Wiley, 2011). He has since written six more books on leadership and organization effectiveness, including his latest, CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest. He has also published over fifty articles for the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Chief Executive Magazine, The Conference Board, Inc.com, and the McKinsey Quarterly, and is a featured speaker at multiple CEO roundtables and guest lecturer at multiple US and European business schools.
Outside of McKinsey, Scott is a cofounder of Digital Divide Data, a multi-award-winning social enterprise. Further afield, Scott is a heavy metal music aficionado featured musician in Rock Camp: The Movie (2021), has played guitar on movie and TV soundtracks, and is also credited as a songwriter and music and documentary producer. He also loves to travel and is one of a few hundred people in history verified to have traveled to every country in the world. His favorite place, however, is Southern California, where he lives with his family.
Carolyn Dewar leads the CEO Excellence practice for consultancy McKinsey and Company, where she is also a Senior Partner. Carolyn coaches many Fortune 100 CEOs to maximize their effectiveness in the role, including business aspiration-setting, organization shifts, top-team effectiveness, managing external stakeholders, board engagement, and resetting their own personal operating model. She works extensively with clients to drive performance at pivotal moments—such as mergers, strategic shifts, crisis and lead large-scale improvement programs integrating strategic, operational, and cultural initiatives.
Carolyn also leads ongoing research on CEO and leadership effectiveness and has published widely, including her new book CEO EXCELLENCE which draw on intimate interviews with 67 of the world’s best CEOs to understand the mindsets that set them apart.
Carolyn is a Canadian and British citizen, and currently lives in San Francisco with her two children and husband.
Vik Malhotra is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company. He currently leads the firm’s Professional Standards Committee. From 2004 to 2017, Vik served on McKinsey’s Board of Directors chairing the People Committee and the Governance & Risk Committee. Vik has also served as the Managing Partner of the Americas, and over time has led parts of our Banking Practice and Insurance Practice.
Vik joined the Firm in 1986 and has spent his career in the New York Office. During his time at McKinsey, his consulting experience has covered a broad range of assignments on performance transformation, corporate strategy, business unit strategy, growth strategies, organizational effectiveness, and operational improvement. Much of Vik’s current focus is on counseling CEOs and Boards on a range of issues.
Vik is also active with major non-profits outside McKinsey. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Board at the Wharton Graduate School (University of Pennsylvania).
He is also a Trustee Emeriti of The New York City Partnership, the Asia Society, and the Conference Board.
Before joining McKinsey, Vik graduated from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Prior to receiving his MBA he worked at the accounting firm of Ernst & Whinney in London, England. Vik received his undergraduate degree in economics from the London School of Economics in 1980.
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This is another book where the authors attempt to belittle the significant work of others while trying to present their ideas as more solid. Most of the ideas in this book weren't new to me.
The book starts out by saying that when they pulled data on the best CEOs, they found the vast majority were white males. They didn't like that and felt it was a "tired list", so they introduced criteria to ensure the list contained a significant percentage of non-whites and females (i.e. manipulated the data). They excluded CEOs like Jeff Bezos as they felt that too many of the top companies were started by men who would have too much power and control over decisions, so they felt that wasn't fair. They opted to look for ways to include people who were promoted in companies that have strong diversity and inclusion cultures (i.e. you need to promote and hire more "insert minority" to fit our quota).
Imagine wanting to know what sets the best hockey players apart but being told there are too many white males from Canada and Russian. That list is tired, so you tweaked the criteria so your new list shows 40% of the top players are females from Kenya. This is where we're at in 2022.
Despite all that nonsense, I really wanted to like this book, but I conclude there are better options out there. After 30 years in leadership positions, I found little new in this book.
This book is a must-read for all organizational leaders.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 8, 2022
This book is a must-read for all organizational leaders.

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However the book is informative



I had high expectation on learning new things regardin Leadership, CEOs and Management, but honestly this book gave me almost no new information.
Normally, I like McKinsey books alot, because they are full of valuable insights.
This book should have been a 10-20 Page PowerPoint presentation. Additionally that the book is not insightful, it isn't fun to read ....