Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office

Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office

A leadership and career manifesto told through the narrative of one of todayâ€™s most inspiring, admired, and successful global leaders.

In Winners Dream, Bill McDermottâ€”the CEO of the worldâ€™s largest business software company, SAPâ€”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 companyâ€™s youngest-ever corporate officer. Eventually, Bill left Xerox and in 2002 became the unlikely president of SAPâ€™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 SAPâ€™s sole, and first non-European, CEO.

Colorful and fast-paced, Billâ€™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 Billâ€™s story is a blueprint for success and the knowledge that the real dream is the journey, not a preconceived destination.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 40581885
ReleaseDate 2014-10-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476761084

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	40581885
ReleaseDate	2014-10-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476761084

Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office

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