The Journey of Leadership

"When the pressure is on, the world's top CEOs go to McKinsey's Bower Forum to reinvent themselves and their organizations. The CEO Workshop brings the experience of the world's most prestigious, invite-only, CEO boot camp to everyone else. Today's CEOs operate in a high-risk, high-reward environment, expected to tackle much more complexity and make big swings with no second chances. It's taken a toll: the average tenure of an S&P 500 CEO is at an all-time low of under five years. Confronted with this terrain, leaders of the world's most storied, boldest, and valuable organizations from Moderna to Microsoft have turned to an inside secret: McKinsey's Bower Forum, the prestigious, invite-only "CEO workshop." Now, The CEO Workshop distills the Forum's "lifechanging experience" into a signature process to identify and implement tenure-defining bold moves: discover their true mandate as CEO assess their situation objectively, including advantages and disadvantages develop creative, actionable ways to reinvigorate both themselves and their organizations create a commitment plan to bring the entire team along and cement their legacy Packed with insightful, vulnerable, never-before-heard reflections from leaders and attendees including Mark Fields (Ford), Jim Owens (Caterpillar), Daniel Vasella (Novartis), Wendy Kopp (Teach for America), Lynn Elsenhans (Sunoco), and Admiral Eric Olson (former head of U.S. Special Operations), The CEO Workshop is an invaluable resource for today's leader"--