How to run a company
Subtitle: lessons from top leaders of the CEO Academy / Dennis C. Carey and Marie-Caroline von Weichs
Contributors: Von Weichs, Marie-Caroline; CEO Academy
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Business
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781400049271
Description: "How to Run a Company is not just for CEOs, but anyone interested in the critical make-or-break factors in today's ever-challenging business environment."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The dilemma of the CEO: uncertainty amidst insecurity / Dennis C. Carey and Marie-Caroline von Weichs; title: Assessing a company as an outsider coming in / Raymond V. Gilmartin, chairman and CEO of Merck & Co.; title: Strategic shifts at a turnaround company / John Dasburg, chairman and former CEO of Burger King and Northwest Airlines; title: Clarifying strategy through mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures / William S. Stavropoulos, chairman and former CEO of The Dow Chemical Company; title: Dealing with market reality: what should a leader do when markets disappear? / C. Michael Armstrong, chairman of Comcast Corporation and former chairman and CEO of AT & T and Hughes Electronics; title: Emerging from turmoil at Tyco: a new CEO prepares for his second hundred days / Dennis C. Carey, vice chairman of Spencer Stuart, US; title: The board as the boss: the relationship between the CEO and the board / John G. Smale, former chairman of General Motors and retired chairman and CEO of Procter and Gamble; title: The working relationship between a CEO and his directors / Kevin Sharer, chairman and CEO of Amgen; title: The board as consultants / Stephen P. Kaufman, retired chairman and CEO of Arrow Electronics; title: Keeping management in check / Nell Minow, editor of The Corporate Library; title: Reforming the corporate-governance process / Ira M. Millstein, senior partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges; title: A CEO looks at the director's role / Harvey Golub, former chairman and CEO of American Express; title: When a company has to grow up / Robert L. Nardelli, chairman, president, and CEO of The Home Depot; title: Streamlining the overmanaged company / John Krol, retired chairman and CEO of E.I. duPont de Nemours; title: How a CEO measures success / Josh Weston, former chairman & CEO of Automatic Data Processing; title: Leading by communicating / Lawrence A. Weinbach, chairman and CEO of Unysis; title: Learning from failure: when execution trumps strategy / David Fuente, former chairman and CEO of Office Depot; title: The view from the street / Robert Hurst, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs Group; title: Building confident investors / Mark Begor, president and CEO of GE Consumor Finance-Americas and former head of Investor Communications at General Electric; title: Controlling the message / Christoph J. Walther, founding partner and CEO of CNC [Communications and Network Consulting] AG and former senior vice president and head of Global Communications at DaimlerChrysler; title: Getting fair news coverage / Matthew Bishop, business editor of The Economist; title: Right versus right: dealing with ethical dilemmas in business / Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr., John Shad Professor of Business Ethics, Harvard Business School.