Boss Talk: Top Ceos Share the Ideas That Drive the World's Most Successful Companies

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Timeless and effective business lessons from twenty-one top CEOs

Every business leader—from manager to entrepreneur—wants to know the ideas that motivate and inspire the world’s most successful CEOs. Boss Talk presents twenty-one CEOs who give expert advice on issues important to today’s businessperson. The topics include:

•Motivating Your Employees
•Managing Growth
•Building a Brand
•Learning from the New Economy
•Trendspotting
•Beating the Competition
•Leading a Successful Turnaround or Transition

Here’s what some bosses are talking about:

“You have to get rewarded in the soul and in the wallet. The money isn’t enough, but a plaque isn’t enough either.”
—Jack Welch, General Electric Co.

“Lead by example. If you do that as CEO, your style will filter down through your team.”
—John Chambers, Cisco Systems

“We do a lot of quantitative stuff. But coupled with that is having an employee staff and culture that is inherently interested in what we do.”
—Tom Freston, MTV Networks

“Surround yourself with people you trust. You can’t run a business over a certain size and sign off on everything.”
—Emily Woods, J.Crew

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Timeless and effective business lessons from twenty-one top CEOs.

Every business leader -- from manager to entrepreneur -- wants to know the ideas that motivate and inspire the world's most successful CEOs. Boss Talk presents twenty-one CEOs who give expert advice on issues important to today's businessperson. The topics include:

Motivating Your Employees
Managing Growth
Building a Brand
Learning from the New Economy
Trendspotting
Beating the Competition
Leading a Successful Turnaround or Transition

Here's what some bosses are talking about:

"You have to get rewarded in the soul and in the wallet. The money isn't enough, but a plaque isn't enough either."
    JACK WELCH

"Lead by example. If you do that as CEO, your style will filter down through your team."
   JOHN CHAMBERS, CISCO SYSTEMS

"We do a lot of quantitative stuff. But coupled with that is having an employee staff and culture that is inherently interested in what we do."
   TOM FRESTON, MTV NETWORKS

"Surround yourself with people you trust. You can't run a business over a certain size and sign off on everything."
   EMILY WOODS, J.CREW

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Vandana Shiva shows how intellectual protection is being transformed into corporate plunder, looking at how this Western-inspired and unprecedented widening of the concept does not in fact stimulate human creativity and the generation of knowledge This compelling book looks at what kinds of ideas, technologies, identification of genes, even manipulations of life forms can be owned and exploited for profit by giant corporations—an issue that lies at the heart of the so-called “knowledge economy.” Shiva shows how intellectual protection is being exploited by transnational corporations in order to increase their profits at the expense of the health of ordinary people—in particular the poor and farmers. This book highlights why popular resistance around the world is rising to the WTO that polices this new intellectual world order, and the pharmaceutical, biotech, and other corporations which dominate it—and the new technologies they are foisting upon humans.

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