FROM SANDER

There are 250 books on leadership written every year. It’s a pretty popular topic. I’ve read a lot of them, particularly by those CEOs who have made it big and whom I personally admire, such as Jack Welch and Larry Bossidy. As a former CEO of a large multinational company, I’ve learned much from them.

I also read books by educators such as Warren Bennis, Peter Drucker, and Noel Tichy. Their writings, in the main, are directed to the Old Guys like myself, or better put, Old Guys writing to Old Guys.

The challenge I’ve always faced with relating the wisdom of these well-known leadership practitioners to my twenty- and thirtysomething MBA students is that their lessons really don’t apply to my students’ present situations. That’s what made me decide to write a

book for both twenty- and thirtysomethings and forty- to sixty-somethings on achieving a leader’s role and how contemporary leaders deal with the issues of leading.