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"One of the 25 Best Leadership Books of All-Time." - SoundviewThe Leadership Classic, Discover Your True North, expanded for todays leadersDiscover Your True North is the best-selling leadership classic that enables you to become an authentic leader by discovering your True North. Originally based on first-person interviews with 125 leaders, this book instantly became a must-read business classic when it was introduced in 2007. Now expanded and updated to introduce 48 new leaders and new learning about authentic global leaders, this revisited classic includes more diverse, global, and contemporary leaders of all ages. New case studies include Warren Buffett, Indra Nooyi, Arianna Huffington, Jack Ma, Paul Polman, Mike Bloomberg, Mark Zuckerberg, and many others. Alongside these studies, former Medtronic CEO Bill George continues to share his personal stories and his wisdom by describing how you can become the leader you want to be, with helpful exercises included throughout the book.Being a leader is about much more than title and management skills -- its fundamentally a question of who we are as human beings. Discover Your True North offers a concrete and comprehensive program for becoming an authentic leader, and shows how to chart your path to leadership success.Once you discover the purpose of your leadership, youll find the true leader inside you. This book shows you how to use your natural leadership abilities to inspire and empower others to excellence in todays complex global world. Discover Your True North enables you to become the leader you were born to be, and stay on track of your True North.
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Bill George is a respected Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School, where he has enjoyed teaching leadership in his practice management classes since 2004. He is the author of six bestselling books: Authentic Leadership, True North, Finding Your True North, 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis, True North Groups, and Discover Your True North.Bill is also the former CEO of Medtronic, a medical device manufacturer and leader in the fight for better global healthcare. During his tenure there, Bill practiced what he preaches; when he became CEO in 1991, he pledged to fill the role for only ten years, following his belief that diversification of a company's leadership is the best way to ensure its future success. As he'd promised, Bill resigned as board chair of Medtronic in 2002.Earlier in his career, Bill was a senior executive with Honeywell and Litton Industries and served in the U.S. Department of Defense. He has served on the boards of Novartis and Target Corporation, and now serves as director of ExxonMobil, Goldman Sachs, and the Mayo Clinic. He is also a trustee of the World Economic Forum USA and Guthrie Theater and a former Trustee of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.Bill makes frequent appearances on television and radio, and his articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, and many other publications. He has also garnered many public accolades in his career, including being named one of the "Top 25 Business Leaders of the Past 25 Years" by PBS; "Executive of the Year-2001? by the Academy of Management; "Director of the Year-2001-02? by the National Association of Corporate Directors; and the 2014 Bower Award for Business Leadership from the Franklin Institute.Bill and his wife Penny live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.For move information about Bill and projects he is working on follow him on Twitter (@bill_george) , Facebook (www.facebook.com/billgeorgetruenorth) , and LinkedIn.
