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Winners dream : a journey from corner store to corner office

Title: Winners dream : a journey from corner store to corner office / Bill McDermott with Joanne Gordon.
Author: McDermott, Bill.
Publication: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.

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Additional Authors

Gordon, Joanne

Description

x, 324 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"A leadership and career manifesto told through the narrative of one of today's most inspiring, admired, and successful global leaders. In Winners Dream, Bill McDermott--the co-CEO of the world's largest business software company, SAP--chronicles how relentless optimism, hard work, and disciplined execution embolden people and equip organizations to achieve audacious goals. Growing up in working-class Long Island, a sixteen-year-old Bill traded three hourly wage jobs to buy a small deli, which he ran by instinctively applying ideas that would be the seeds for his future success. After paying for and graduating college, Bill talked his way into a job selling copiers door-to-door for Xerox, where he went on to rank number one in every sales position he held and eventually became the company's youngest-ever corporate officer. Eventually, Bill left Xerox and in 2002 became the unlikely president of SAP's flailing American business unit. There, he injected enthusiasm and accountability into the demoralized culture by scaling his deli, sales, and management strategies. In 2010, Bill was named co-CEO, and in May 2014 he will become SAP's sole, and first non-European, CEO. Colorful and fast-paced, Bill's anecdotes contain effective takeaways: gutsy career moves; empathetic sales strategies; incentives that yield exceptional team performance; and proof of the competitive advantages of optimism and hard work. At the heart of Bill's story is a blueprint for success and the knowledge that the real dream is the journey, not a preconceived destination"--

Subject

Note

Includes index.

Contents

Hungry. Optimism ; Underdog ; The greatest coach ; Find a way ; Want it more -- Empathy. Listen and learn ; Out-hustle ; Register ambition ; Player-coach -- Inspire. Real ; Paint pictures of success ; Questions of reinvention ; Higher purpose ; Pageantry ; Better -- Thunderbolts. Time to fly ; Lost ; Faith ; Empathy -- Foundations of discipline. Sweetness ; Urgency ; Anatomy of change ; Art and science ; Big athletes -- Be bold. Crisis of opportunity ; The corner office ; Air cover for the troops ; Trust is still the ultimate currency ; Big ideas ; The work of dreams ; The journey.

Call Number

JBE 16-595

ISBN

9781476761084
1476761086

LCCN

2014016609

OCLC

2014016609

Author

McDermott, Bill.

Title

Winners dream : a journey from corner store to corner office / Bill McDermott with Joanne Gordon.

Publisher

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.

Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Gordon, Joanne, author.

Research Call Number

JBE 16-595

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