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From the worlds most influential management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, this is an insight-packed, revelatory look at how the best CEOs do their jobs based on extensive interviews with todays most successful corporate leadersincluding chiefs at Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, General Motors, and Sony.

Being a CEO at any of the worlds largest companies is among the most challenging roles in business. Billions, and even trillions, are at stakeand the fates of tens of thousands of employees often hang in the balance. Yet, even when cant miss high-achievers win the top job, very few excel. Thirty percent of Fortune 500 CEOs last fewer than three years, and two out of five new CEOs are perceived to be failing within eighteen months.

For those who shoulder the burden of being the one on whom everyone counts, a manual for excellence is sorely needed.

To identify the 21st centurys best CEOs, the authors ofCEO Excellencestarted with a pool of over 2400 public company CEOs. Extensive screening distilled that group into an elite corps, sixty-seven of whom agreed to in-depth, multi-hour interviews. Among those sharing their views: Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan Chase), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Reed Hastings (Netflix), Kazuo Hirai (Sony), Ken Chenault (American Express), Mary Barra (GM), and Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (Nestl).

What came out of those frank, no-holds-barred conversations is a rich array of mindsets and actions that deliver outsized performance. Compelling, practical, and unprecedented in scope,CEO Excellenceis a treasure trove of wisdom from todays most elite business leaders.