Winners Dream
A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office
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Winners Dream
Narrated by:
Bill McDermott
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About this listen
In Winners Dream, Bill McDermott—the CEO of the world’s largest business software company, SAP—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 company’s youngest-ever corporate officer. Eventually, Bill left Xerox and in 2002 became the unlikely president of SAP’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 SAP’s sole, and first non-European, CEO.
Colorful and fast-paced, Bill’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 Bill’s story is a blueprint for success and the knowledge that the real dream is the journey, not a preconceived destination.
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Must read for anyone in business
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I would recommend this to anyone who aspires to be a successful business leader themselves especially within the software space.
Or anyone looking to work for ServiceNow where Bill recently took up the CEO role. If this book is anything to go by then ServiceNow is about to embark on an incredible journey with Bill at the helm.
The best business autobiography I’ve ever read / listened to
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Love it as been part of the journey and can relate
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Inspiring and a kick up the backside
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in ERP, this has given an excellent insight into his mind, mindset and family history.
This is great for anyone who wants to achieve greatness in their own right.
it's not how to be an entrepreneur because he clearly says that was not his focus its how to get into a company and scale big, mixed with how to take in your surroundings
Awesome book
Informative and inspirational
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