Envision this scenario: An industrial manufacturer is breaking itself
in three, and its board chair asks you, the chief financial officer, to
step up to the helm of one of the spin-offs. You will take charge of
everything, from plant operations and product marketing to human
resources and governance practices. Are you ready to lead?
In The Leader's Checklist, 10th Anniversary Edition: 16
Mission-Critical Principles, world-renowned leadership expert and
Wharton professor Michael Useem shows you how to lead through any
challenge--and shares how ITT's Denise Ramos did just that when she
encountered this situation.
In this illuminating guide, Useem offers a Leader's Checklist that will
help you develop your ability to make good and timely decisions in
unpredictable and stressful environments--for those moments when
leadership really matters.
To illustrate the principles, Useem examines where leaders go right--and
wrong. He looks at: How Ramos, the former CEO of ITT, turned around the
once-struggling enterprise; How AIG's tone-deaf response to the
tumultuous events of the global financial crisis left the company
vulnerable to one of the greatest corporate collapses in business
history; andHow Virginia Rometty, the former executive chair of IBM,
acquired and integrated a cloud-computing company to help turn around
IBM's fortunes. Based on Useem's own research experience and an array of
leadership investigators, thinkers, and practitioners, The Leader's
Checklist offers actionable insights you can put into practice as a
leader today.
