Best in Brief: A return to the power of ideas

Frank Auton

Review of article in MIT Sloan Management Review. Compares the careers and styles of current and past CEOs, and argues from this that `deal making and salesmanship are giving way to creativity and innovation as the driving ethos in corporate America’.

Best in brief

A Return To The Power Of Ideas

Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

'Deal making and salesmanship are giving way to creativity and invention as the driving ethos in corporate America.' This is the latest thinking in the essential requirements for the 21st century CEO. There is an array of charismatic CEOs currently giving up the reins of corporate America. They fall into several genres. Savvy dealmakers like Jack Welch (GE), Louis Gerstner (IBM) and Sandy Weill Citibank), leaders who focused on charming Wall Street, not innovation. Rogue...

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