Harvard Business School Working Knowledg e Archive

Lessons from the Top

10/12/1999
What does it take to be an exceptional business leader? How can such leadership be identified? Are there lessons we can learn from top leaders that we can apply to our own lives and careers? To find the answers to these questions, Neff and Citrin, of the executive search firm Spencer Stuart, set out to identify the best business leaders in America and talk with them at length about how they do what they do. The result is a collection of insightful profiles which explore how these leaders make their companies great -- and the lessons we can learn from them.