The Sentinel CEO: Perspectives on Security, Risk, and Leadership in a Post-9/11 World - Hardcover

Parrett, William G.

 
9780470125410: The Sentinel CEO: Perspectives on Security, Risk, and Leadership in a Post-9/11 World
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0470125411 ISBN 13: 9780470125410
Verlag: Wiley, 2007

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Sustain Leadership--in a post-9/11 world--Minimize Risk
 
What does it take to maintain leadership in today's?turbulent global environment? In The Sentinel CEO, leading executives, security chiefs, and academics provide candid insights into how business-as-usual has changed in the wake of 9/11.
 
William Parrett, Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, shares his four decades of expertise to help business leaders, executives, and government officials understand and mitigate risks in this age of globalization. Revealing interviews with executives from America's leading corporations, including MetLife, Convergys, and Cantor Fitzgerald, help explain how CEOs and others have defined and achieved sustainable leadership after 9/11. Focusing on two broad issues--the evolution of corporate security and risk management as executive-level strategic functions, as well as the new focus on mastering the unexpected--The Sentinel CEO explores:
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The branding dilemma: how U.S. companies are rethinking their image abroad
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Lessons learned: CEOs discuss how their companies are anticipating and coping with terrorist threats and attacks
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Opportunity and risk in China and India
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"Imagining the unimaginable": how to look more closely at the real and unanticipated dangers of avian influenza
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Safeguarding security, as it pertains to travel, physical facilities, employees, and data
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The newest employee: how the Chief?Security Officer is fast becoming a key decision maker in the top management of many U.S. companies and an indispensable?ally of the CEO
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The precarious balance between enhancing security and maintaining America's ability to attract and retain foreign talent and business sustainability
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Sustaining leadership in an age when business is confronted with new risks and?challenges as well as unprecedented opportunity
 
Dealing with risk and security has become an all-consuming task for today's business executives. The Sentinel CEO helps businesses?prepare for an eventuality.

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William G. Parrett is Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and Senior Partner, Deloitte & Touche USA LLP. In a career spanning nearly four decades, he has served many large national and multinational businesses. He cofounded the Deloitte Global Financial Services Industry practice and served as its first chairman.

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The Sentinel CEO
Perspectives on Security, Risk, and Leadership in a Post-9/11 World
 
Terrorism is hardly a contemporary phenomenon. But it is ever present today, and its manifestations more diverse than ever before. U.S. companies conducting business abroad have an obligation to their stakeholders to be more attuned to local customs and standards if they expect to be effective--and to mitigate risk--in the global business arena. The Sentinel CEO shares the insights of various CEOs on changes they have adopted to sustain their leadership while providing security to their employees and companies in?turbulent times.
 
For many corporations, a new and increased focus on security has become an indisputable necessity in order to compete globally. Day-to-day operations now incorporate more security personnel, more frequent communication with employees, and more?security briefings for people traveling abroad. In this candid book, author William Parrett--CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu--draws on interviews with America's leading CEOs, security experts, public officials, and academics to explore the subtle and profound ways American businesses have changed since 9/11, with special attention to issues of risk in a global environment.
 
Underscoring how core values can help companies address and recover from unforeseen threats, The Sentinel CEO examines a variety of risks facing business of all sizes that operate in a global environment, including the implications of China and India's increasing economic might, growing anti-American sentiments abroad, pandemics such as the avian flu, and the impact of tougher immigration laws on the talent pool in the United States.
 
Examining our post-9/11 world from the perspective of senior executives, William Parrett delves deep within today's leading corporations to discover:
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The kinds of new?strategic decisions they are making
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Who they are relying on to identify threats, assess security, and protect their company's human and physical assets
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What their take is on the new challenges the global war on terror is creating for today's business leaders
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If U.S. business can continue to prosper?abroad against the backdrop of highly confrontational foreign policy
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Whether U.S.?business leadership is sustainable, given immigration and education concerns, or if China and India will take the lead
 
Rich with personal insights, The Sentinel CEO helps today's corporate executives anticipate and confront unexpected risks so they can remain leaders in the global market.

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Sustain Leadership--in a post-9/11 world--Minimize Risk
 
What does it take to maintain leadership in today's?turbulent global environment? In The Sentinel CEO, leading executives, security chiefs, and academics provide candid insights into how business-as-usual has changed in the wake of 9/11.
 
William Parrett, Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, shares his four decades of expertise to help business leaders, executives, and government officials understand and mitigate risks in this age of globalization. Revealing interviews with executives from America's leading corporations, including MetLife, Convergys, and Cantor Fitzgerald, help explain how CEOs and others have defined and achieved sustainable leadership after 9/11. Focusing on two broad issues--the evolution of corporate security and risk management as executive-level strategic functions, as well as the new focus on mastering the unexpected--The Sentinel CEO explores:
*
 
The branding dilemma: how U.S. companies are rethinking their image abroad
*
 
Lessons learned: CEOs discuss how their companies are anticipating and coping with terrorist threats and attacks
*
 
Opportunity and risk in China and India
*
 
"Imagining the unimaginable": how to look more closely at the real and unanticipated dangers of avian influenza
*
 
Safeguarding security, as it pertains to travel, physical facilities, employees, and data
*
 
The newest employee: how the Chief?Security Officer is fast becoming a key decision maker in the top management of many U.S. companies and an indispensable?ally of the CEO
*
 
The precarious balance between enhancing security and maintaining America's ability to attract and retain foreign talent and business sustainability
*
 
Sustaining leadership in an age when business is confronted with new risks and?challenges as well as unprecedented opportunity
 
Dealing with risk and security has become an all-consuming task for today's business executives. The Sentinel CEO helps businesses?prepare for an eventuality.

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Verlag
Wiley
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0470125411
ISBN 13 
9780470125410
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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