The New Global Leaders: Richard Branson, Percy Barnevik, David Simon and the Remaking of International Business

Spend some time with three of today's most noted business pioneers and share their secrets for achieving international success. The New Global Leaders takes readers into the private worlds of Asea Brown Boveri's Percy Barnevik, Virgin founder Richard Branson, and British Petroleum titan David Simon to provide rare and candid profiles of how these charismatic leaders have redefined organizational growth and development in the latter 20th century. The authors were granted unprecedented access to these men and the results are as fascinating as they are informative. Readers are treated to personal interviews with these very powerful and very different personalities, each of whom provides a behind-the-scenes account of how he put his company on the global map. Sharing their philosophies, visions, and strategies, they exemplify leadership in an age of rapid and relentless change and provide new models of success for our post-industrial era.

Author: Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries, Elizabeth Florent-Treacy
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 03/22/1999
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.23w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9780787946579

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/1999 pg. 110
Booklist 03/15/1999 pg. 1265

About the Author
MANFRED F.R. DE VRIES is a professor at INSEAD, the world's leading global business school, as well as a practicing psychoanalyst and consultant. Author of fifteen books, including the award-winning Life and Death in the Executive Fast Lane (Jossey-Bass, 1995), he has been featured in the New York Times, Fortune, The Economist, Harper's, and the Financial Times. He lives in Paris, France. ELIZABETH FLORENT-TREACY is a research affiliate in management and leadership at INSEAD. She lives in Fontainebleau.