Book Review: How I Did It – Lessons from the Front Lines of Business

Editor: Daniel McGinn Publisher: Harvard Business Review – 319 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This is a collection of 34 candid essays written in the first person by heads of corporations of various sizes, including some very well-known ones such as Aflac, Amway, Blockbuster, DuPont, Encyclopedia Britannica, Enterprise, General Electric, Google, H.J. Heinz, Honeywell, Marriott, Novartis, Prada, Timberland, and Xerox. Taken from the pages of the Harvard Business Review, the leaders of the companies relate to us some of the most difficult management challenges they faced and what they did. The lay person usually assumes that they did...

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