A SYSTEM TO THINK, MANAGE AND LEAD LIKE A CEO Over 70 Tools to Drive Jump-Start, Quantum Leaps and Turnarounds Some companies seem to thrive naturally, attaining success after success. Others limp from one lackluster year to the next. What makes one company blossom while another wilts? CEO Tools 2.0 reveals the importance of making your business meaningful to yourself, your customers and your employees. You’ll discover how to better communicate your goals, execute your intentions and optimize your results. The end goal is a healthy, flourishing company that maximizes profits. This book offers through a series of simple but profound steps: • Set your company’s direction • Communicate with trust • Track metrics for insight • Anticipate (and create) the future • Attract and coach winning team members Filled with practical, actionable ideas and relevant case studies, this book builds upon and updates Kraig Kramers’s original CEO Tools. This powerful system enables you to make the most of your time and expertise—and become the CEO you were meant to be. JIM CANFIELD is the Managing Director of CEO Tools by Aprio. He is proud to have been selected to pick up what KRAIG KRAMERS started to author this new version of CEO Tools, to continue to build and improve the tools, and to work directly with companies looking to implement this powerful system. “Provides the tools for any CEO, owner or manager to create breakthrough results.” JACK CANFIELD, International Bestselling Author “Get the tools you need to build a better future for yourself, your people and your organization.” KEN BLANCHARD, International Bestselling Author “The tools featured in CEO Tools 2.0 offer a guide to measure metrics, assess performance and create a culture of ongoing improvement.” TONY HSIEH, New York Times Bestselling Author

Some companies seem to thrive naturally, attaining success after success. Others limp from one lackluster year to the next. What makes one company blossom while another wilts? In CEO Tools 2.0, CEO coach and C-Level executive Jim Canfield reveals the importance of making your business meaningful to yourself, your customers, and your employees. You'll discover how to better communicate your goals, execute your intentions, and optimize your results. The end goal is a healthy, flourishing company that maximizes profits while freeing CEOs from the humdrum routine of daily operations. Imagine having time to fully develop your personal and professional interests, confident in your team's ability to provide high-quality service, products, and results. This is what Canfield offers through a series of seven simple but profound steps: Set your company's direction Communicate with trust Track metrics for insight Anticipate (and create) the future Attract and coach winning team members Build an autonomous company Celebrate your success Filled with practical, actionable ideas and relevant case studies, CEO Tools 2.0 builds upon and updates Kraig Kramers's original CEO Tools. This powerful system enables you to make the most of your time and expertise-and become the CEO you were meant to be.

At last, a managers book for tightening up the nuts and bolts of business. Just a twist of a wrench can literally change your world. Think, for a moment, about securing the bolts on an aircraft engine. The right tools and techniques are paramount. In business, its the same. You need just the right business tools and know-how to be successful. This is a go-do-it book, not just more how to lessons. Its written by Kraig Kramers, an eight-time veteran CEO, who puts easy-to-use management tools directly in your hands to make more money and improve your individual success immediately. This book is about tools for tightening up the nuts and bolts in your business, tools to tune up performance with your customers, people, profits, productivity, and results -- plus tools for tuning up your own success as a manager.

Being a CEO “Chief Executive Officer” takes a great deal more effort and energy than just giving orders. You can't just tell an employee something and move on. You have to understand where they are coming from and their individual strengths, weaknesses, fears, and motivations. During the recent global recession, much attention was devoted to the mistakes that sparked the financial and economic crisis, in hopes of not repeating them. Less was given to what was done well amid the turmoil to learn, for example, how best to lead a company through tough times. None of the CEOs we interviewed in this book claimed to have attempted anything revolutionary. What was evident, however, was their resolve in pursuing the principles they thought were right, often in the face of opposition. Leadership becomes increasingly important in tough times, when so much is at risk but it can be even harder to exercise. The leadership “musts” described in this book has made the greatest difference for CEOs on the front line.

CHINA CEO: Voices of Experience From 20 International Business Leaders is based on interviews with 20 top executives and eight experienced consultants based in China. The book is packed with first-hand, front-line advice from veterans of the China market. Hear directly from the top executives heading up the China operations of Bayer, British Petroleum, Coca-Cola, General Electric, General Motors, Philips, Microsoft, Siemens, Sony and Unilever, plus expert China-based consultants at Boston Consulting Group, Korn/Ferry International, McKinsey & Company, and many more. Each chapter provides practical tips and easy to grasp models that will help new managers in China to be effective. In CHINA CEO, we deliver what other Western authors can't – first-hand reflections based on over 100 years' collective experience in China. The book presents this rich knowledge in a readable, conversational style suitable for time-constrained executives. Each chapter gives specific advice on how to manage Chinese employees, work with Chinese business partners, communicate with headquarters, face competitors, battle intellectual property rights infringers, win-over Chinese consumers, negotiate with the Chinese government, and adapt yourself (and your family) to life in China.

You’re only a startup CEO once. Do it well with Startup CEO, a "master class in building a business." —Dick Costolo, Former CEO, Twitter Being a startup CEO is a job like no other: it’s difficult, risky, stressful, lonely, and often learned through trial and error. As a startup CEO seeing things for the first time, you’re likely to make mistakes, fail, get things wrong, and feel like you don’t have any control over outcomes. Author Matt Blumberg has been there, and in Startup CEO he shares his experience, mistakes, and lessons learned as he guided Return Path from a handful of employees and no revenues to over $100 million in revenues and 500 employees. Startup CEO is not a memoir of Return Path's 20-year journey but a thoughtful CEO-focused book that provides first-time CEOs with advice, tools, and approaches for the situations that startup CEOs will face. You'll learn: How to tell your story to new hires, investors, and customers for greater alignment How to create a values-based culture for speed and engagement How to create business and personal operating systems so that you can balance your life and grow your company at the same time How to develop, lead, and leverage your board of directors for greater impact How to ensure that your company is bought, not sold, when you exit Startup CEO is the field guide every CEO needs throughout the growth of their company.

Shortlisted for the Business Book of the Year (International Books category) 2022 Every year, companies spend billions of dollars in board time and headhunter fees on CEO searches. In fact, the selection of the next CEO is the single most important task of the board of directors. Yet, despite the huge amount of time, money, and attention given to the task, many CEO changes fail, with disastrous consequences for all concerned. With so much at stake, it is natural to ask what companies and their boards can do to increase the odds of success. Illustrated with an abundance of real-life examples from interviews with CEOs, C-suite members, members of the boards, and headhunters supporting CEO searches, The Next CEO explains how boards can improve the odds of success with CEO succession by identifying clear CEO mandates and associated CEO profiles and by selecting CEOs that are fi t for purpose. It further explains how the CEOs of leading corporations effectively take charge and create results, providing a roadmap for incoming CEOs. These ideas are brought to life with case studies and interviews with well-known corporations such as ABB, Alibaba, Freudenberg, GE, Google, HNA, HP, Microsoft, Nestle, Nike, Nokia, Novartis, Roche, Sony, Tata, and Zurich Insurance. The book is invaluable practical reading for board members of medium-to-large-size fi rms involved with CEO succession, and for those preparing for their fi rst CEO position. It is also relevant to headhunters who are involved in the process of CEO succession as a working tool for them and their clients. In addition, the book will be relevant to courses on corporate governance and strategic transformation at the executive and MBA levels.