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The Book of Leadership Wisdom: Classic Writings by Legendary Business Leaders

Peter Krass (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-471-29455-9
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512 pages
October 1998
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THE NECESSARY QUALITIES.

Harold S. Geneen: Leadership.

Andrew S. Grove: Taking the Hype Out of Leadership

Katherine Graham: If "Business Credibility" Means Anything.

Chester I. Barnard: The Active Qualities of Leaders.

A. Montgomery Ward: The Elements of Personal Power.

Roberto C. Goizueta: The Real Essence of Business.

DEALING WITH ADVERSITY.

H. Ross Perot: Business Leaders: It's Up to Us to Recover the Industrial Leadership.

John F. Welch, Jr.: Global Competitiveness: America in the Eye of the Hurricane.

Rene C. McPherson: The People Principle.

Max DePree: Roving Leadership.

Olive Ann Beech: The Woman Executive.

J. Paul Getty: The Businessman at Bay.

VISIONS OF PROGRESS.

Thomas A. Edison: Machine and Progress.

David Sarnoff: The Fabulous Future.

Robert N. Noyce: Innovation: The Fruit of Success.

Charles B. Wang: Techno Vision.

Bill Gates: A View from Olympus.

EVOLVING PERSPECTIVES ON LABOR.

William Randolph Hearst: Labor Relations: The Division of Wealth.

Daniel Guggenheim: Some Thoughts on Industrial Unrest.

William Cooper Procter: How We Divide with Our Men.

Frederick Coolidge Crawford: Good Human Relations: The Solution of Labor Problems.

Harry A. Bullis: Business and Labor.

Frederick W. Smith: Creating an Empowering Environment for Alll Employees.

COMPANY CULTURE.

David Packard: Trust in People.

Rober D. Haas: Ethics: A Global Business Challenge.

Sir Adrian Cadbury: Ethical Managers Makes Their Own Rules.

An Wang: Responsibility.

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield: Lead with Your Values.

Akio Morita: American and Japanese Styles.

HABITS AND IDIOSYNCRACIES.

John H. Johnson: Failure Is a Word I Don't Accept.

Kemmons Wilson: Take Your Idea and See It Through.

Ray Kroc: Self-Discipline Calles Key to Success.

Dave Thomas: The Wonder of Routine.

Sandra L. Kurtzig: In the Public Eye.

Willard F. Rockwell, Jr.: Reviewing Youself.

William Wrigley, Jr.: I Never Make an Appointment.

A. P. Giannini: I Answer the Telephone Myself.

MOTIVATORS AND MENTORS.

Ralph Lazarus: The Case of the Oriental Rug.

John H. Patterson: How I Get My Ideas Across.

Louis F. Swith: G. F. Swift: I Can Raise Better Men Than I Can Hire.

Andrew Carnegie: The Secret of Business Is the Management of Men.

Charles W. Patterson: Business Is a Young Man's Game.

T. Coleman du Pont: Are You a Job-Holder or a Result-Getter?

Theodore N. Vail: The Making of a Successful Businessman.

LEADING REVOLUTION.

Lawrence A. Bossidy: Reality-Based Leadership: Changes in the Workplace.

Robert W. Galvin: Real Leader Create Industries.

Lillian Vernon: Growth.

Thomas J. Watson. Jr.: Reorganization.

Michael D. Eisner: Managing a Creative Organization.

Linda J. Wachner: Do It Now!

J. Willard Marriott, Jr.: Preserve Order Amid Change.

Henry Ford: How to Keep a Business Growing.

Chronology.

Author Index.

Acknowledgments.

Notes.

Credits and Sources.

Index.
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