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CEO: Chief Evolutionary Officer, Leaders Mapping the Future, by August T. Jaccaci, Susan B. Gault. Butterworth-Heinemann.
The book gives the reader a clear view of a future ideal and teaches the creative thinking and evolutionary dynamics needed to practically move into action. Unique in that it tells leaders how to create a vision of their own making. It is an entire system of insights and tools. More information.

CEO Logic : How to Think and Act Like a Chief Executive, by C. Ray Johnson. Career Press.
CEO LOGIC is a great resource for executives looking to improve how they think through both the day-to-day challenges of running a business and the "big picture" issues of how to stay competitive. More information.

CEO Pay and Shareholder Value: Helping the U.S. Win the Global Economic War, by Ira T. Kay. Saint Lucie Press.
U.S. executive pay, particularly that of CEOs, has been under serious attack for nearly a decade. Despite the fact that tying executive performance and pay to stock price has appeared to have substantially benefited the U.S. economy, this criticism has not subsided. CEO Pay and Shareholder Value challenges some assumptions behind this criticism by addressing these pertinent questions and more. More information.

The CEO's Playbook, by Ron Rhody. Academy Publishing.
A concise guidebook for managers and executives on how to successfully handle the outside forces that shape success: the news media, government, activists and special interest groups, shareholders and employees -- with special emphasis on crisis management and damage control, establishing the right persona, the uses of spin, why public opinion doesn't count, and doing the right thing. More information.

CEO Succession: A Window on How Boards Can Get It Right When Choosing a New Chief Executive, by Dennis C. Carey, Dayton Ogden, Judith A. Roland. Oxford University Press; 1st edition.
Succession planning has become a front-burner issue in corporate boardrooms across the country. For board members, CEOs, and anyone concerned about the quality of governance in corporate America, CEO Succession fills the need for a practical, best-practices roadmap that puts the board of directors squarely at the helm as the guiding force for ensuring the steady flow of effective leadership. More information.

Evaluating the Nonprofit Ceo: A Guide for Chief Executives and Board Members, by John Gillis. Jones & Bartlett Publishers; Ringbound edition. More information.

Five Frogs on a Log: A CEO's Field Guide to Accelerating the Transition in Mergers, Acquisitions And Gut Wrenching Change, by Mark L. Feldman, Michael Frederick Spratt. HarperBusiness; 1st edition.
Five Frogs on a Log is a practical and easy-to-absorb manual for corporate leaders facing those intense periods of total transformation that seem--for better or for worse--to define today's business world. More information.

High Standards, Hard Choices : A CEO's Journey of Courage, Risk, and Change, by Dana G. Mead. Wiley.
In 1992, Mead spearheaded a transformation of one of the nation's most troubled conglomerates, Tenneco. He went on to become a policy shaper and voice of industry. But no reward comes without risk, and Mead never once shied away from his unconventional management style and visionary tactics. High Standards, Hard Choices takes a rare look at the convictions of a man on the front lines during a time when companies were reborn and heroes were made. More information.

How to Become CEO: The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization, by Jeffrey J. Fox. Hyperion; 1st ed edition.
A No-Nonsense, Common-Sense Guide to Getting to the Top of the Tree. More information.

Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs, by Rakesh Khurana. Princeton University Press.
Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected and dismissed or about their true power. This is the first book to take us into the often secretive world of the CEO selection process. More information.

Strategies for High Performance Organizations-The Ceo Report: Employee Involvement, Tqm, and Reengineering Programs in Fortune 1000 Corporations (Jossey-Bass Business & Management (Paperback)), by Edward E. Lawler, Susan Albers Mohrman, Gerald E. Ledford. Jossey-Bass; 1st ed edition. More information.

The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable, by Patrick M. Lencioni. Jossey-Bass; 1st ed edition. Absorbing, compelling, and utterly memorable, The Five Temptations of a CEO is like no other business book that's come before. Author Patrick Lencioni -- noted screenplay writer and sought-after executive coach -- deftly tells the tale of a young CEO who, facing his first annual board review, knows he is failing, but doesn't know why. More information.

The Right CEO: Straight Talk About Making Tough CEO Selection Decisions, by Frederick W. Wackerle, Frederick W. Wackerle. Jossey-Bass; 1 edition.
The CEO selection and succession process is notoriously dysfunctional. Often, the wrong person is selected or the right person is put into a situation that blocks them from doing a good job. This is the first book on the topic to address the interrelationships between the five key groups in the CEO selection process--boards, HR executives, recruiters, CEOs, and CEO candidates. More information.

The Strategist CEO : How Visionary Executives Build Organizations, by Michel Robert. Quorum Books.
This practical guide describes a unique and proven method for setting and implementing strategy and for dealing with the qualitative variables that face an organization. After the concepts have been clearly elucidated, Robert describes their implementation in a variety of corporate settings. More information.

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