Five Temptations of the CEO: A Fable About Leadership Art

Author: Lance Iaocini
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: This is a must-read book for all leaders, not just CEOs. Lance Iaocini delivers a challenging message: when things go wrong, CEOs should primarily blame themselves. If you are a CEO, do you have the courage to face criticism? Doing so can also change your future—for the better. This is an outstanding work on CEO leadership, offering valuable insights for managers at all levels. For a CEO, the position itself signifies a certain level of success, but to maintain this success, CEOs often succumb to the persistent temptations lurking in their subconscious. Lance Iaocini uniquely reveals the mysteries: the endless management crises in companies are often not caused by surface-level strategic failures, marketing shortcomings, competitive threats, or foolish decisions in technology development, but rather by the fundamental yet often unacknowledged mistakes made by the CEO at the core of management. The first half of the book is a captivating business novel, mysterious, fluid, and full of suspense; the second half is a deep and detailed pattern diagnosis, profound, incisive, and meticulously argued. This writing style, deeply marked by Lance Iaocini's signature, has been a resounding success in business management literature. Almost every leader can find their reflection in the novel while discovering the deeper causes of their mistakes and corresponding strategies in the professional pattern analysis.