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A leadership and career manifesto told through the narrative of one of todays most inspiring, admired, and successful global leaders. In Winners Dream, Bill McDermottthe CEO of the worlds largest business software company, SAPchronicles how relentless optimism, hard work, and disciplined execution embolden people and equip organizations to achieve audacious goals. Growing up in working-class Long Island, a sixteen-year-old Bill traded three hourly wage jobs to buy a small deli, which he ran by instinctively applying ideas that would be the seeds for his future success. After paying for and graduating college, Bill talked his way into a job selling copiers door-to-door for Xerox, where he went on to rank number one in every sales position he held and eventually became the companys youngest-ever corporate officer.