HOW TO BECOME A TRANSFORMATIVE CEO

摘要

What is it about Steve Jobs' legacy that so captures our imagination and inspires innovation? It's that Steve Jobs was a true transformative chief executive officer (CEO). The most successful CEOs of our time generally share that one quality-they are transformative. In this article I share the findings from significant research on transformative CEOs. After decades of studying organizations and CEOs, I have come to believe that enterprise has now entered the fourth phase of business -the transformative organization. In the 1920s at General Motors Alfred Sloan introduced the corporation; in the 1950s Peter Drucker codified the practice of management, in the 1980s Japanese business brought quality and teams; and today the next phase of enterprise has emerged, transformative organizations, those that combine higher purpose and profit.