title: The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession
author:  Joseph L. Bower 
description: The CEO Within is a breakthrough in CEO succession. Bower stands tall in producing research-based management concepts for practitioners. --Ram Charan, CEO advisor and co-author of the bestselling Execution<br /><br />...the best leaders are people from inside the company who somehow have maintained enough detachment from the local traditions, ideology and shibboleths that they have retained the objectivity of an outsider. --Forbes, December 11, 2007<br /><br />The process of CEO succession is a critical part of the way you run a company, not something separate... --CNNMoney.com, February 15, 2008
zlib_text: The OUTSIDERS
  
  The OUTSIDERS
  Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically
  Rational Blueprint for Success
  William N. Thorndike, Jr.
  HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW PRESS
  BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
  
  Copyright 2012 William N. Thorndike, Jr.
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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Thorndike, William.
  The outsiders : eight unconventional CEOs and their radically rational blueprint for
  success / William N. Thorndike, Jr.
  p. cm.
  ISBN 978-1-4221-6267-5 (alk. paper)
  1. Executive ability. 2. Industrial management. 3. Success in business. 4. Chief ex