Cultural transformations : lessons of leadership & corporate reinvention from the C-suite elite

This book reveals to current leaders at all levels, emerging C-suite executives, and future leaders unique insights, thoughts, beliefs, values, success stories, setbacks, failures, and lessons learned of some of the world's most successful CEOs and shows how they leveraged what they have learned about themselves as the critical foundation to creating and sustaining positive organizational cultures. Reading these powerful interviews and stories, readers will uncover their own unique leadership gifts and strengths as well as discover their development needs and perhaps some truths about their values, character, and beliefs. Informative, prescriptive, inspirational, and aspirational the book features interviews with two dozen top CEOs who have created, led, and sustained successful organizational cultures, including: Interviews completed Vice Chairman, Deloitte MD of Proctor The heart of the book are the highlights from CEO conversations: two dozen stories of success and failure, key learnings, important personal and leadership changes, and how they were able to bridge their personal discoveries to working with their senior leaders and their entire organization to create a powerful work culture. Each chapter will also feature summary observations about each CEO interview, written in an executive assessment format, e.g., reflections about thinking patterns, emotional make-up, etc. Each CEO will have already taken the MLEI Assessment (a measure of executive maturity). The  appendix features the MLEI as well as leadership development guidelines for strengthening leadership capabilities and offers a potent roadmap for leaders and future leaders. The final chapter on Transforming Culture features the 7-Steps organizations must take to achieve successful transformation.  Foreword by Marshall Goldsmith.