AmCham Croatia Live with Harvard Business Review Press 10.3.
AmCham is association with Harvard Business Review Press is bringing you top writers of management books. At this on-line event, Adam Bryanzt and Kevin Sharer introduced the key insights from their new book The CEO Test.
The CEO Test - Master the Challenges that Make or Break All Leaders
Despite much effort over the years to understand what it takes to be an effective leader, the art of leadership remains enormously difficult and elusive. Authors Adam Bryant and Kevin Sharer have identified the seven key reasons why leaders succeed or fail in their roles.
Leadership is getting harder as the speed of disruption across all industries accelerates. The CEO Test simplifies the complex and sprawling field of leadership to create a shared language of what truly matters for leaders at all levels, and provides a clear roadmap for succeeding in these critical challenges:
Can you develop a simple plan for your strategy? Simplifying complexity is a leader’s superpower.
Can you make the culture real—and matter? It’s about walking the talk.
Can you build teams that are true teams? They are key to driving strategy.
Can you lead transformation? The status quo is enormously powerful, and the enemy of change.
Can you really listen? Danger signals can be faint, and bad news travels slowly.
Can you handle a crisis? Avoid the predictable mistakes that trip up so many leaders.
Can you master the inner game of leadership? The conflicting demands and challenges must be managed.
Adam Bryant is managing director of Merryck & Co., a leadership development and senior executive mentoring firm. Prior to this role, he was a journalist for 30 years, including at The New York Times, where he created and authored the widely read “Corner Office” column, for which he interviewed more than 500 CEOs and other leaders. He is the author of two previous books and is the senior adviser to the Rueben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character and Leadership at Columbia University.
Kevin Sharer is the former president, CEO, and chairman of Amgen, the world’s largest biotech company, where he led its expansion over two decades from $1 billion to nearly $16 billion in annual revenue. After stepping down in 2012, he taught strategy and management at Harvard Business School for seven years and co-created with Nitin Nohria, the Harvard Business School dean, a popular course on the life and role of the CEO and to how to lead senior executive teams. He has served on the boards of Chevron, Unocal, Northrop Grumman, and 3M. In his roles as an executive, director, and mentor, he has been involved with more than twenty successful CEO transitions, and he continues to advise CEOS of global corporations. Kevin is a Naval Academy graduate and served on two attack nuclear submarines.
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