Acknowledgments

We are grateful to many people who have helped us. Our first thanks must go to the (literally) thousands of executives who have shared with us their hopes and fears in conversations spanning 30 years. Their passion and energy about executing strategy have ignited our own.

We interviewed a variety of people, from Olympic athletes and diplomats to CEOs, some of whom agreed to be quoted here. Irene Dorner, the president and CEO of HSBC America, has given us ideas as well as a couple of leadership laws (such as the Dorner Law of Unintended Outcomes). David Levin, Tom Albanese, Jeremy Pelczer, Dominique Fournier, Nick Forster, and Pramod Bhasin all shared their own hard-won experiences of strategy execution as CEOs. Sir Jeremy Greenstock ...

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