This title includes candid conversations with
top leaders around the world on how they approached pivotal moments
in their careers. No Fear of Failure offers insightful, candid
conversations with some of the world''s top leaders in business,
politics, education, and philanthropy each giving a first-person
account of how they approached crucial, career defining moments.
Gary Burnison, CEO of KornFerry International, the world''s largest
executive recruiting firm, sits down one-on-one with a highly
select and elite corps, and together they openly discuss how they
handled often very publicly war, economic downturn, corporate
turnover, and even retirement. Together these world-class leaders
show the risks one must be willing to take, as well as the vision,
resilience, and compassion necessary to lead. It includes original
interviews with Michael Bloomberg, Carlos Slim, Eli Broad, Indra
Nooyi, Drew Gilpin Faust, Anne Mulcahy, Vincente Fox, Lt. General
Franklin L. ''Buster'' Hagenbeck, Coach John McKissick, Liu Chuanzhi,
Daniel Vasella, and Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. It explores the common
traits great leaders exhibit: vision, compassion, resilience,
competitiveness, purpose, humility, team-building skills,
entrepreneurial spirit, perseverance, self-awareness, empowerment,
and being a catalyst. Taking readers into executive suites,
government offices, battlefields, and football fields, No Fear of
Failure shows how great leaders make lasting impact.