The Change Maker (AUTHOR INSCRIBED)

This memoir of an unconventional agent of change provides a lesson in the values of strategic thinking and responsible leadership. Checchi chronicles how creativity, strategic thinking, and negotiating skills helped transform three American institutions: Marriott, Walt Disney, and Northwest Airlines; and led him to challenge the California political establishment as a candidate for governor.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 253 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked The Change Maker (AUTHOR INSCRIBED)? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked The Change Maker (AUTHOR INSCRIBED). Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. You Can't Predict a Hero: From War to Wall Street, Leading in Times of Crisis Shares executive ability, executives, business
  2. How to Relax Without Getting the Axe Shares executive ability, executives, business
  3. How to Think Like a CEO Shares executive ability, executives, leadership
  4. Your First 100 Days: How to Make Maximum Impact in Your New Leadership Role Shares executive ability, executives, leadership

“If you want more of the same (biography), start with these.”

  1. Robert K. Greenleaf
  2. The Ride of a Lifetime
  3. The Powell Principles: 24 Lessons from Colin Powell, a Battle-Proven Leader
  4. Jack Welch speaks

“If it was the executive ability that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Coached to Lead: How to Achieve Extraordinary Results with an Executive Coach
  2. Toxic leaders
  3. Leadership coaching
  4. The cycle of leadership

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Becoming a strategic leader
  2. Call Sign Chaos
  3. Thinking Strategically
  4. The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters