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Steinbaum, Harlan.

Tough calls from the corner office : top business leaders reveal their career-defining moments / Harlan Steinbaum with Dave Conti and Michael Steinbaum. - New York : HarperBusiness, c2011. - ix, 271 p. ; 24 cm.

The road taken: making key career choices -- Leaving the mother ship: taking the entrepreneurial leap -- Love and marriage: finding or shedding business partners -- Betting the farm: risking success for more success -- Hearts and minds: creating a new corporate culture -- The mother of invention: transforming the company's business model -- Sea change: repositioning, refocusing, and renewing a business -- When to fold 'em: knowing when it's time to step aside -- Paths to service: defining moments that transcend business.

Describes the career-making decisions of nearly forty of America's most successful business leaders and the lessons they learned along the way, and includes an appendix of professional advice.

9780061802492 (hbk.)

2011411148


Decision making.
Leadership.

HD30.23 / .S74 2011

658.4092 / STE 2011