CEO Excellence

CEO Excellence

What makes the specificity of outstanding leaders?

Author(s): Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, Vikram Malhotra

Publisher: Scribner

Date of publication: 2022

Manageris opinion

Among the elite of leaders of major companies, a small group of stars distinguish themselves through exceptional performance and success. What makes them stand out from the crowd? To understand this, the authors of CEO Excellence interviewed some of these exceptional bosses: Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Kazuo Hirai of Sony, etc. In doing so, they have identified six categories of practices—one of which, in the third chapter, deals with the climate these leaders have managed to install in the team surrounding them. The authors describe in detail, starting from numerous concrete examples, how these leaders have fostered healthy interactions, set the right tempo for exchanges and cultivated the proper balance between team spirit and strategic debates.