Description
The dual purpose of So You Want to Be the Boss? is (a) to identify and (b) to enhance awareness of the essential ingredients involved in functioning effectively as a chief executive. What in- spired it requires a candid and somewhat personal disclosure.
But for the consistent support and timely assistance-more accurately, the pushes and shoves-of others, this may well have become one of those countless millions of books only dreamed, never written. The dream itself began in the fall of 1958 when at age 36 I was recruited by Houston's then fourth-largest bank. Its chair- man, an outside director, informed me that I "might become its chief executive in three to five years" (it actually happened in less than a year). He next said something that became emblazoned on my psyche: "I hope you'll be ready." His emphasis on the words "might" and "hope" lay heavily on my conscience from that moment on because I knew better than anyone that my readiness was hardly born, much less mature.
ISBN:9780138154325
