Cultural Transformations. Mattone John

and essential cultural change.”

– Soliman Maher Arab, founder and managing principal, Vigor Enterprises

      “Cultural Transformations provides a practical and inspiring roadmap for corporate reinvention and leadership development. Through 14 in-depth interviews with some of today's best business minds, John Mattone and Nick Vaidya take you into the heart of what it means to lead and transform your company in today's rapidly evolving business landscape.”

– Labeed S. Hamid, president of Middle East Management Centre and co-founder of Management Centre Turkey

      “John Mattone and Nick Vaidya's new book is essential reading for CEOs, businesspeople, or anyone interested in learning how to become a better leader. Their conversations with some of today's most interesting and successful business minds bring to light a treasure trove of useful and inspiring insights into what it takes to build and lead a thriving corporate culture.”

– Kevin Dunn, chief executive officer, CEO Clubs of America

      “In Cultural Transformations, John Mattone uses his extraordinary ability to bring out the best in people through 14 intimate interviews with some of the world's most successful CEOs. He and co-author Nick Vaidya plumb the depths of each CEO's experience, weaving together a profound and practical study on leadership, culture, and the need for corporate transformation in today's business world.”

– Romeo Ruh, executive board, ZfU International Business School

      “When it comes to challenging territory of corporate cultural change, John Mattone is a master. In his new book, Cultural Transformations, he and co-author Nick Vaidya engage in 14 thought-provoking conversations with some of the world's top business leaders about their leadership style and how they built successful, thriving, and profitable cultures within their organizations. It's a must-read for anyone interested in business culture and how to change it.”

– Dr. Eva Benesova, executive director, Principal Coaching Ltd.

      “Cultural Transformations is an invaluable resource for entrepreneurs, managers, and future business leaders who want to take their leadership and their culture to the next level. Through this book, you will learn from 14 of today's top CEOs about what makes them tick and how they built the thriving cultures that drive their companies' success.”

– Kirat Dhillon, Director of HR & Events, Society for Human Resource Management

      “Culture is a key driver for any organization success. In their new book, John Mattone and his co-author Nick Vaidya show you why. Weaving together a series of intimate interviews with some of the world's most successful CEOs with their own in-depth experience, they show us why and how to get started in the challenging process of corporate reinvention.”

– Achal Khanna, CEO, Society for Human Resource Management

      “In our extensive work with companies of all types, we find culture to be the most significant frontier CEOs have yet to explore. In Cultural Transformations, John Mattone and Nick Vaidya masterfully guide us in an in-depth exploration of this new frontier. Mining the experience of their clients and many business leaders, they get to the bottom of what it takes to build, lead, and sustain a thriving corporate culture in today's rapidly changing economies.”

– Dr. M. Muneer, CEO of CustomerLab

      “In Cultural Transformations, John Mattone and Nick Vaidya bring you not one, but fourteen intimate conversations with some of today's most successful business leaders. You'll hear about their leadership styles. You'll learn about how they overcame obstacles. And you'll get an inside look into how they built thriving and profitable enterprises by focusing on the health and vitality of their company's culture.”

– Dr. Mukul Kumar, president of UWC-USACultural TransformationsLessons of Leadership and Corporate ReinventionJOHN MATTONE AND NICK VAIDYA

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Mattone, John, author. | Vaidya, Nick, 1965- author.

      Title: Cultural transformations: lessons of leadership & corporate reinvention from the C-suite elite / John Mattone and Nick Vaidya.

      Description: Hoboken, New Jersey: JohnWiley & Sons, Inc., [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2015036831 | ISBN 9781119055921 (cloth)

      Subjects: LCSH: Corporate culture. | Organizational behavior. | Leadership.

      Classification: LCC HD58.7 .M377 2016 | DDC 658.4/2 – dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015036831

      Cover Design: Michael J. Freeland

      Cover Image: Neil Kendall / iStockphoto

      About the Authors

      JOHN MATTONE IS WIDELY ACKNOWLEDGED as one of the world's leading authorities on leadership, talent, and culture. He advises Fortune 100 °CEOs and senior leadership teams on how to create and sustain a leadership and talent culture that drives superior operating results.

      John is a powerfully engaging, internationally acclaimed keynote speaker and top-ranked CEO executive coach. If you Google the 30 top leadership gurus of 2015, you'll find John Mattone at number nine, after Marshall Goldsmith and ahead of Jim Collins. He was nominated for the prestigious 2013 Thinkers50 Leadership Award, which recognizes the global thinker who has contributed most significantly to our understanding of leadership over the