In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders Of The Twentieth Century
The authors, Harvard Business School academics, offer profiles from their exhaustive study of the greatest business leaders of the twentieth century. Leadership arises from knowledge and appreciation of one's economic, social, and political situation in the world, and we learn about "contextual intelligence," or the understanding of how to make sense of one's time and to seize the opportunities it presents. Mayo and Nohira classify great business chiefs as entrepreneurs, those who create businesses; managers, those expert at taking advantage of every opportunity; and leaders, those who reinvent industries and see new opportunities in them. With the book's organization by each decade of the twentieth century, we learn the importance of such legends as Sam Walton, Walt Disney, Bill Gates, Henry Ford, Ray Kroc, Jack Welsh, Estee Lauder,^BTed Turner, Lee Iacocca, and Lou Gerstner Jr. Recognition is also given to "unsung heroes," the large corps of nameless team members who provide support. Although written in a textbook manner, the book offers valuable insight into business excellence.Mary WhaleyCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved