The Conference Board Challenge to Business: Industry Leaders Speak Their Minds

by Peter Krass (Editor)

Demanding Issues and Compelling Answers--from 36 Top Business Minds The Conference Board Challenge to Business contains ideas both stimulating and provocative from today's top business leaders--Warren Buffett, Tom Peters, Katherine Graham, Akio Morita, and others. With thirty-six essays, interviews, and speeches representing the best from The Conference Board's renowned publications and seminars, this thought-provoking anthology covers a wide range of
* Robert Townsend discusses what effective, can-do corporate leadership is--and is not
* Peter Drucker describes why, in today's society, sharing knowledge is the key to power and success
* Charles Wang explains how, in order to flourish, American business executives must continually expand their techno-literacy
Thirty-six business leaders, representing the accomplishments of today and the promise of tomorrow, take the podium to say what they really think. Whatever your business, The Conference Board Challenge to Business will inspire you, entertain you, and provide you with the tactics, strategies, and knowledge you need to compete and win in today's turbulent business environment.

320 pages, Hardcover

First published August 25, 2000

About the author

I like to dabble for “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds” as Ralph Waldo Emerson would remind us. Although I’m not sure how far dabbling will get you, I’ve enjoyed working on biographies, business books, newspaper stories, business articles, that all-consuming yet maddeningly elusive arena of fiction, and poetry.

And now my wife and I are Vermont farmers to boot, with a sugar bush that glows in the low winter sun, chickens who lay regularly, a coq who never crows before 7am, honey bees who are sweet as, well, honey, and 2 German shepherds who want more than anything to shepherd the chickens …