Winners Dream by Bill Mcdermott
A leadership and career manifesto from former SAP CEO Bill McDermott, one of today's most inspiring, admired, and successful global leaders.In Winners Dream, Bill McDermott--former CEO of the world's largest business software company, SAP, and current CEO of ServiceNow--chronicles 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 company's youngest-ever corporate officer. Eventually, Bill left Xerox and in 2002 became the unlikely president of SAP's flailing American business unit. There, he injected enthusiasm and accountability into the demoralized culture by scaling his deli, sales, and management strategies. In 2010, Bill was named co-CEO, and in May 2014 became SAP's sole, and first non-European, CEO.
Colorful and fast-paced, Bill's anecdotes contain effective takeaways: gutsy career moves; empathetic sales strategies; incentives that yield exceptional team performance; and proof of the competitive advantages of optimism and hard work. At the heart of Bill's story is a blueprint for success and the knowledge that the real dream is the journey, not a preconceived destination.
McDermott, Bill: - Bill McDermott is the CEO of SAP, the world's largest business software company. Before joining SAP in 2002, McDermott served as executive vice president of Worldwide Sales and Operations at Siebel Systems and president of Gartner, Inc., where he led the company's core operations. He spent seventeen years at Xerox Corporation, where he rose from a sales professional to become the company's youngest corporate officer and division president. McDermott holds an MBA in business management from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and he completed the Executive Development Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781476761084 |
| ISBN 10 | 1476761086 |
| Title | Winners Dream |
| Author | Bill Mcdermott |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 2014-10-14 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Commended for Axiom Business Book Awards (Biography/Memoir) 2015 |
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