The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviours that Transform Ordinary People into World Class Leaders

Winner of CMI Management Book of the Year 2019New York Times BestsellerWall Street Journal BestsellerEverything you thought you knew about becoming a CEO is wrong. You must graduate from an elite college or business school. In fact only 7 percent of the CEOs of todays companies went to a top school--and 8 percent didnt graduate from college at all. Never put a foot wrong. In fact people who have become CEOs have on average had five to seven career setbacks on their way to the top.Drawing on the biggest dataset of CEOs in the world -- in-depth analysis of 2600 leaders drawn from a database of 17000 CEOs as well as 13000 hours of interviews -- The CEO Next Door is crammed full of myth-busting and counter-intuitive insights in what it really takes to get ahead. Discover the way actual CEOs of top companies think and behave and the kind of traits to develop if you want to make your ambitions a reality and take your career right to the top.