"When the pressure is on the world's top CEOs go to McKinsey's Bower Forum to reinvent
themselves and their organizations. The CEO Workshop brings the experience of the world's most
prestigious invite-only CEO boot camp to everyone else. Today's CEOs operate in a high-risk
high-reward environment expected to tackle much more complexity and make big swings with no
second chances. It's taken a toll: the average tenure of an S&P 500 CEO is at an all-time low
of under five years. Confronted with this terrain leaders of the world's most storied boldest
and valuable organizations from Moderna to Microsoft have turned to an inside secret:
McKinsey's Bower Forum the prestigious invite-only "CEO workshop." Now The CEO Workshop
distills the Forum's "lifechanging experience" into a signature process to identify and
implement tenure-defining bold moves: discover their true mandate as CEO assess their situation
objectively including advantages and disadvantages develop creative actionable ways to
reinvigorate both themselves and their organizations create a commitment plan to bring the
entire team along and cement their legacy Packed with insightful vulnerable
never-before-heard reflections from leaders and attendees including Mark Fields (Ford) Jim
Owens (Caterpillar) Daniel Vasella (Novartis) Wendy Kopp (Teach for America) Lynn Elsenhans
(Sunoco) and Admiral Eric Olson (former head of U.S. Special Operations) The CEO Workshop is
an invaluable resource for today's leader"--
