Three McKinsey & Company’s senior partners detail what makes a CEO excellent in this outstanding book “CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest.”

The McKinsey trio Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, and Vikram Malhotra conducted detailed interviews with a representative sample of 67 high-performing CEOs and paired it with McKinsey’s data on 7,800 CEOs from 3,500 public companies across 70 countries and 24 industries. The 67 CEOs interviewed for around three hours each by McKinsey partners include former Mastercard CEO, Ajay Banga, Shiseido CEO, Masahiko Uotani, former Telstra CEO, David Thodey, Adidas CEO, Kasper Rorsted, Alphabet CEO, Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, Adobe CEO, Shantanu Narayen, Publicis CEO, Maurice Levy, former Lego CEO, Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, former Westpac CEO, Gail Kelly, and Netflix co-CEO, Reed Hastings, JPMorgan Chase CEO, Jaime Dimon, and General Motors CEO, Mary Barra.

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