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100 Great Business Leaders (100 Great Ideas): of the World's Most Admired Companies
Author(s): Jonathan Gifford (Author)
- Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd
- Publication Date: 15 July 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 276 pages
- ISBN-10: 9814408093
- ISBN-13: 9789814408097
Book Description
100 Great Business Leaders selects the very best business leaders from the last 200 years, investigating their ideas, their personal qualities, their decisions and their routes to success. Each concise account concludes with a summary of key ideas, demonstrating how a reader might apply these ideas in their own lives.
The 100 chosen business leaders are from companies around the world and include a mixture of business founders (for example, Henry Ford, Bill Gates of Microsoft, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Liu Chuanzhi of Lenovo, N.R. Narayaana Murthy of Infosys, Romi Haan of Haan Corporation) and famous business executives (for example, Jack Welch of GE, A.G. Lafley of Procter & Gamble, Vinita Bali of Britannia Industries). These 100 business leaders are the outstanding examples of the men and women whose drive, vision and tenacity have created the great success stories of modern business
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About the Author
JONATHAN GIFFORD is a businessman, historian and author, whose writing focuses particularly on the human aspects of leadership and management. After reading philosophy at the University of Kent at Canterbury, Jonathan worked for a number of major media organizations, beginning his career at the Guardian newspaper in the 1970s. He went on to work for the Sunday Express, the Mail on Sunday, and later for BBC Worldwide, where he launched the award-winning BBC History Magazine in 2000. Jonathan is a director of the digital design agency, Bluequest Media, and is the author of History Lessons (Marshall Cavendish, 2010) and Blindsided (Marshall Cavendish, 2012). He lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and children.
