It's All About Who You Hire, How They Lead...and Other Essential Advice from a Self-Made Leader

Morton Mandel 지음

Jossey-Bass 2012년 11월 08일 출간

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Leadership wisdom from a former CEO and Self-Made Billionaire With corporations now associated in the public mind primarily with greed and unethical practices, it's more important than ever for leaders to move the focus back onto integrity, honesty, and doing the right thing. Mort Mandel, a CEO whom Peter Drucker esteemed in the same category as Jack Welch and Andy Grove, has spent the past seven decades mixing business and philanthropy, to the great enhancement of both. In this book Mandel shows how leaders can create lives of both meaning and profitability. Contains Mort Mandel's fascinating story (including his work with Peter Drucker, and the painful sale of Mandel's company) Provides both inspiration and lessons on the leadership skills such as building culture, customer relationships and execution that are necessary to achieve crossover successShows how running a business and a nonprofit made Mandel a better entrepreneur and a self-made billionaireThe book is filled with lessons learned from how Mort Mandel built a $3 billion company from scratch, yet also managed to spend up to a third of his time in the social sector, building and supporting nonprofit organizations.

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Editor's note by Warren Bennis xiiiForeword by John A. Byrne xvPrologue xxi1 It's All About Who 12 The ABC's of People 113 Building a Rich, Deep, and Ethical Culture 214 What Happens When You Ignore Culture, People, and Values 335 What I Learned from Peter Drucker 516 Killing Yourself for Your Customer 697 Principles Make a Difference 798 Factbooks: Key to Personal Discipline 899 Why We Swung Our Acquisitions Bat to Hit Singles, Not Home Runs 9510 Lighting Candles 10311 A Gospel of Wealth 11512 Using Business Ideas in the Social Sector 12113 An Olive Tree 12914 Yes, I Can! 13715 Some Beacons to Steer By 14716 If I Could Do It Over Again . . . 157Appendix 163Acknowledgments 173The authors 179Index 181

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저자(글) Morton Mandel

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Morton Mandel is a self-made billionaire, entrepreneur and philanthropist. With his brothers, Jack and Joseph, he cofounded Premier Industrial Corporation in 1940, eventually merging it with Farnell Electronics in a $3 billion transaction. The brothers established the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation, which funds numerous social leadership initiatives all over the world.Mort was named by Peter Drucker as one of three impressive CEOs alongside Jack Welch and Andy Grove. He learned how to start and build enduring institutions from the ground up. His financial success and passion allowed him to partner with non-profits of all kinds with a laser-like focus on developing professional leadership, able to truly transform people's lives. He has personally founded more than a dozen non-profit organizations. His deep-seated passion is evident in the mission of his Foundation: ldquo;To invest in people with the values, ability, and passion to change the world.rdquo;Mort has fine-tuned a set of practices that have been proven to deliver dramatically better results. In his book, It's All About Whohellip;, he shows how important it is to find, recruit, and cultivate ldquo;Ardquo; players for leadership roles. This can lead to better strategies, better execution, and greater client satisfaction. Further, he believes that personal values matter n- honesty, decency, respect, and generosity are essential elements in a life worth living.John A. Byrne, the former executive editor of BusinessWeek and editor in chief of Fast Company magazine, is the author or coauthor of ten other business books, including two New York Times best sellers. With legendary General Electric Co. CEO Jack Welch, he wrote Jack: Straight from the Gut, one of the most successful business books in history.