Over the past twenty years, Patrick Below has authored three books specifically aimed at CEOs and their Executive Team. His best-selling book, The Executive Guide to Strategic Planning, has recently been chosen by the China Productivity Center as "one of the ten best U.S. management books." This book is further distinguished as one of the most practical books focused on the role of CEOs in organizing and carrying out the all-important strategic planning process within a company.

The Executive Guide to Operational Planning was written as a companion volume to the strategic planning book. This book provides CEOs and their Executive Teams with a proven method for ensuring the implementation of their strategic plan.

The CEO Challenge, Patrick's most recent book, identifies the specific challenges CEOs now face in the 21st century. It provides a historical context for the how the current system of management has evolved. It then identifies a whole new paradigm of management for achieving sustainable organization results in today's highly inter-connected, global environment.

Today's CEOs are operating in a new environment. We recently wrote a tribute to Peter Drucker. Drucker challenged CEOs to instill integrity and character throughout their organizations. Unfortunately, we are bearing witness to many CEOs who have violated the trust placed in them.

Much has been said about Drucker's contributions to the theory and practice of modern management. He clearly cared about a business managing its resources for improved results. Equally important to Drucker, however, was how public and private organizations operated morally and ethically within society.

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