Wisdom of the CEO 29 Global Leaders Tackle Today's Most Pressing Business Challenges

by Dauphinais, G. William; Means, Grady; Price, Colin

• ISBN13: 9780471357629
• ISBN10: 0471357626
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-24
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This book presents focused commentaries from some of the world's best-known CEOs on the eight key drivers of business today as identified by PricewaterhouseCoopers: globalization, growth, shareholder value, innovation, organizational skill, disruptive technology, E-business, and knowledge management. With comprehensive introductions to each critical area, readers will gain both the knowledge of PwC's worldwide experience and the first-hand insights of the CEOs. The major companies represented from America, Europe and Asia include Dell, Ford, ABB, Sony, Texaco, Blockbuster, and Edventure Holding.

Author Biography

About the Authors G. William Dauphinais, based in New York, is a PricewaterhouseCoopers partner. He is coauthor with Colin Price of the bestselling Straight from the CEO. Grady Means is a PricewaterhouseCoopers partner based in Washington, D.C. Colin Price is a former PricewaterhouseCoopers partner based in London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Foreword Discerning the Agenda of the Global Economy	xi
Klaus M. Schwab
Introduction Warp-Speed Change: The Challenge to Business Leadership	1	(14)
Globalization amidst Rapid Change: Developing an Aggressive Strategy	15	(42)
Value from the Center	25	(7)
Niall W.A. FitzGerald
Next Frontier of Globalization: Consumer Focus	32	(11)
Jacques A. Nasser
Banking is 90 Percent Action, 10 Percent Strategy	43	(8)
Sir John Bond
Organizing and Managing for Global Success	51	(6)
Bertrand P. Collomb
Growth: Reinvention is the Key	57	(40)
Creating and Managing Hypergrowth	73	(8)
Michael S. Dell
Growth: The Engine of Global Leadership	81	(9)
Stephen R. Hardis
Satisfying a Global Appetite	90	(7)
Charles R. Shoemate
Shareholder Value: Refocusing on Meaning over Measures	97	(34)
Changing the Rules: A Path to Shareholder Value	109	(6)
John F. Antioco
Building Value the Baxter Way	115	(10)
Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr.
Building Shareholder Value with Strategists---Lots of Them	125	(6)
Sir Brian Pitman
Organization: The Pathways of Organizational Transformation	131	(44)
Slaying the Dragon	144	(8)
C. Michael Armstrong
Decentralization is the Crucible of Growth	152	(8)
Ralph S. Larsen
Firing Up the Evangelical Organization	160	(7)
William J. Henderson
The Energy of Leadership	167	(8)
Peter I. Bijur
E-business	175	(44)
Online Commerce: Changing Everything, or Nothing?	187	(11)
Esther Dyson
E-business: New...and Not So New	198	(6)
K. Blake Darcy
To Portal or Not to Portal? That is the Question	204	(8)
Robert W. Shaw
Consumer Empowerment: The Internet and the Art of Management	212	(7)
James J. Schiro
Disruptive Technology and the Large Corporation	219	(46)
Disrupt or Be Disrupted: Overturning Conventional Thinking in the Information Storage Industry	232	(10)
Michael C. Ruettgers
Walking the Precipice: Achieving the Right Technology Balance	242	(9)
Roger G. Ackerman
Driver or Enabler? The Internet's Role in Twenty-First-Century Business	251	(9)
Lawrence A. Bossidy
Marketing Reshaped by Technology	260	(5)
Thierry Breton
Innovation: New Ideas, Dangerous Ideas	265	(46)
Environmental Compliance Helps the Bottom Line	277	(7)
Pasquale Pistorio
Cool Head, Firm Hand, Warm Heart: The ABB Approach to Innovation	284	(6)
Goran Lindahl
Teams on Fire: Sony's Innovation Culture	290	(11)
Nobuyuki Idei
DuPont Is a Science Company	301	(10)
Charles O. ``Chad'' Holliday, Jr.
Knowledge Management: Unifying Knowledge and Action	311	(38)
Organizing Knowledge throughout the World	323	(9)
Timothy Koogle
Knowledge Focused on Results	332	(10)
Dr. Daniel Vasella
Ba: A Place for Managing Knowledge	342	(7)
Yotaro Kobayashi
CEO Biographies	349	(16)
Index	365