Conversations on Leadership: 6 Leaders on What Drives Excellence

by Michael Useem (Foreword)

What if you could sit down with some of today's most effective business leaders? Now you can.
Knowledge@Wharton has interviewed some of today's most powerful and successful business leaders about issues important to them as leaders. Conversations on Leadership: 6 Leaders on What Drives Excellence , drawn from the archives of Knowledge@Wharton, includes interviews with:
The Huffington Post's Arianna Huffington on how to thrive as a leader
Medtronic's Bill George on authentic leadership
Johnson & Johnson's Alex Gorsky on leadership challenges
The New York Times Company's Arthur Sulzberger on leading the organization and newspaper
Ellevate's Sallie Krawcheck on the business case for diverse leadership
PricewaterhouseCooper's Robert E. Moritz on why "diverse teams give you the best thinking"Featuring interviews by Wharton professors Adam M. Grant and Michael Useem, Conversations on Leadership is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the thinking of today's business leaders or who aspires to become a more successful leader.
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Published October 20, 2015

About the author

Michael Useem is a professor in the Management Department and Faculty Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management and McNulty Leadership Program at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His university teaching includes MBA and executive-MBA courses on management and leadership, and he offers programs on leadership and governance for managers in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.  He works on leadership development with many companies and organizations in the private, public and nonprofit sectors.

He is co-anchor for a weekly program “Leadership in Action” on SiriusXM Radio Channel 132 and co-director of the annual CEO Academy. He is the author of The Leader’s Checklist, The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap (with Harbir Singh), The Edge: How Ten CEOs Learned to Lead—And the Lessons for Us All, Go Long: Why Long-Term Thinking Is Your Best Short-Term Strategy (with Dennis Carey, Brian Dumaine, and Rodney Zemmel). Mastering Catastrophic Risk (with Howard Kunreuther), Fortune Makers: The Leaders Creating China’s Great Global Companies (with Harbir Singh, Neng Liang, and Peter Cappelli), The India Way (with Peter Cappelli, Harbir Singh, and Jitendra Singh), and Boards That Lead (with Ram Charan and Dennis Carey).