Books
100 Great Business Leaders
By Jonathan Gifford
Marshall Cavendish Business, 2013
- How did John D Rockefeller become the richest American of all time?
- Why did Mark Zuckerberg walk away from $1 billion?
- How did A.G. Lafley save Proctor & Gamble from ‘a death spiral’?
- How did Robin Li defeat Google in China?
The career of every great business leader reads like the plot of a novel. Great leaders, by definition, have a vision that is not shared by everyone. There are difficulties and adversities to overcome; they face many obstacles, including self-doubt, but persevere in the hope of achieving their goal.
100 Great Business Leaders selects the very best business leaders from over two hundred years of business history, investigating their ideas, their personal qualities, their decisions and the routes to their success, from the early steamship and railway magnate, Cornelius Vanderbilt, in the early nineteenth century, to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg in the early twenty-first century; from the Americas to Europe, from India, Japan and South East Asia to China.
Contents
1 Dhirubhai Ambani · Reliance Industries
2 Bernard Arnault · LMVH
3 Mary Kay Ash · Mary Kay Cosmetics
4 Vinita Bali · Britannia Industries
5 Jeff Bezos · Amazon
6 Sara Blakely · Spanx
7 William Boeing · Boeing
8 Richard Branson · Virgin Group
9 Warren Buffett · Berkshire Hathaway
10 Andrew Carnegie · Carnegie Steel
11 Dhanin Chearavanont · Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group
12 Eva Chen · Trend Micro
13 Chung Ju-yung · Hyundai
14 Charles A. Coffin · General Electric Company
15 Terence Conran · Habitat
16 Michael Dell · Dell
17 Walt Disney · The Walt Disney Co.
18 Dong Mingzhu · Gree Electric Appliances
19 James Dyson · Dyson
20 Thomas Edison · Edison General Electric Company
21 Henry Ford · Ford Motor Company
22 Bill Gates · Microsoft
23 Louis Gerstner · IBM
24 Carlos Ghosn · Renault-Nissan
25 King C. Gillette · Gillette
26 Bill Gore · W.L. Gore & Associates
27 Katharine Graham · The Washington Post Group
28 Philip Green · Arcadia
29 Andrew Grove · Intel
30 Romi Haan · Haan Corporation
31 John Harvey-Jones · ICI
32 Bill Hewlett & David Packard · Hewlett-Packard
33 Soichiro Honda · Honda
34 Tony Hsieh · LinkExchange; Zappos
35 Lee Iacocca · Ford; Chrysler
36 Mohamed ‘Mo’ Ibrahim · MSI; Celtel
37 Steve Jobs · Apple
38 Herb Kelleher · Southwest Airlines
39 Vinod Khosla · Sun Microsystems
40 Gerard Kleisterlee · Philips
41 Phil Knight · Nike
42 Koo In-hwoi · LG Corporation
43 Koo Bon-Moo · LG Corporation
44 Ray Kroc · McDonald’s
45 A.G. Lafley · Proctor & Gamble
46 Estée Lauder · Estée Lauder
47 Lee Byung-chull · Samsung
48 Robin Li · Baidu
49 Li Ka-shing · Hutchison Whampoa
50 Liu Chuanzhi · Lenovo Group
51 Liu Yonghao · New Hope
52 Olivia Lum · Hyflux
53 Ma Huateng · Tencent
54 Jack Ma · Alibaba
55 John Mackey · Whole Foods Market
56 Anand Mahindra · Mahindra & Mahindra
57 Annie Turnbo Malone · Poro
58 Michael Marks · Marks & Spencer
59 Konosuke Matsushita · Panasonic
60 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw · Biocon
61 William McKnight · The 3M Company
62 George W. Merck · Merck & Co
63 Lakshmi Mittal · ArcelorMittal
64 Sunil Bharti Mittal · Bharti Airtel
65 Akio Morita · Sony
66 Alan Mulally · Ford Motor Company
67 Anne Mulcahy · Xerox
68 Rupert Murdoch · News Corporation
69 N.R. Narayana Murthy · Infosys
70 Ning Gaoning · COFCO
71 Indra Nooyi · PepsiCo
72 Archie Norman · Asda
73 Jorma Ollila · Nokia
74 Larry Page · Google
75 Azim Premji · Wipro
76 Gina Rinehart · Hancock Prospecting
77 John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil
78 Anita Roddick · The Body Shop
79 Howard Schultz · Starbucks
80 Alfred P. Sloan · General Motors
81 Darwin Smith · Kimberley-Clark
82 Fred Smith · FedEx
83 Martin Sorrell · WPP Group
84 Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata · Tata Group
85 Ratan Tata · Tata Group
86 Kiichiro Toyoda · Toyota
87 Cornelius Vanderbilt · Steamships and railways
88 Sam Walton · Wal-Mart
89 Cher Wang · HTC
90 Wang Shi · China Vanke
91 Perween Warsi · S&A Foods
92 Thomas J. Watson · IBM
93 Jack Welch · General Electric
94 Meg Whitman · eBay
95 Jerry Yang · Yahoo!
96 Zhang Jindong · Suning Group
97 Zhang Ruimin · Haier
98 Zhang Yin · Nine Dragons Paper
99 Zong Qinghou · Wahaha
100 Mark Zuckerberg · Facebook
Review
Dr Mark Powell, Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
The best way to develop your leadership skills is to learn from the great leaders. The best way to learn from the great leaders is to read this book. Easy to read, insightful and informative, this book is an effective crash course for all who aspire to be great business leaders.
Buy this book
