[Doc] Leave Something on the Table and Other Surprising Lessons for Success in Business and in Life [PDF EBOOK EPUB KINDLE]

[Doc] Leave Something on the Table: and Other Surprising Lessons for
Success in Business and in Life [PDF EBOOK EPUB KINDLE]
[Doc] Leave
Something on the
Table: and Other
Surprising
Lessons for
Success in
Business and in
Life [PDF EBOOK
EPUB KINDLE]
Description
Frank Bennack is executive vice chairman and former CEO of Hearst, a
leading global media, information and services company with more than
20,000 employees and 360-plus businesses. During Bennackâ€s tenure as
CEO, he directed the company through an unprecedented period of growth
from when he began his first tenure as CEO in 1979 through June 2013
when he stepped down increasing revenues 14 times and growing earnings
more than 30 times. He is also chairman of the companyâ€s Executive
Committee, a director of Hearst, and a trustee of the Hearst Family
Trust. In addition, he sits on a number of corporate committees and the
Hearst Foundations Boards, where he has served for more than 25 years.
Bennack is currently a director of Ralph Lauren Corporation. He is
chairman of Hearst Magazines UK, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hearst.
Bennack is also a governor and former chairman of NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital and its Healthcare System, a managing director of the
Metropolitan Opera of New York, chairman emeritus of Lincoln Center for
the Performing Arts, and chairman of The Paley Center for Media
(formerly The Museum of Television & Radio). Excerpt. © Reprinted by
permission. All rights reserved. Prologue Prologue This is a book of
stories. I was CEO of Hearst for almost three decades, so many of those
stories are about business. But the point of telling these stories is
not to revisit old challenges, brag about long-ago successes, or explain
how, on my watch, we transformed a 1950s magazine and newspaper company
into a hundred-year-old start-up. Although Iâ€m in many of these
stories—hey, itâ€s my book—theyâ€re really about the people in my
life, and what I learned from them, and what we accomplished together.
In many of these stories youâ€ll also meet two remarkable and
accomplished women. Luella Mae Smith, my high school girlfriend, became
my wife for more than fifty years. She died tragically and without
warning on April 17, 2003. She is central to the period from 1949 to
2003. Dr. Mary Lake Polan, to whom I was married on April 2, 2005, has
supported me and enriched my life on many levels. She has been an
important force throughout my second tour as CEO of Hearst, as well as
during my Lincoln Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
chairmanships. Like Luella, she has made the good times better and the
difficult times bearable. If these stories offer some wisdom, itâ€s