Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office Audiobook (Free)

A leadership and profession manifesto told through the narrative of 1 of today’s most inspiring, admired, and effective global leaders.

In Winners Desire, Bill McDermott-the CEO from the world’s largest business software company, SAP-chronicles how relentless optimism, effort, 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 about Winners Wish: A Journey from Corner Shop to Corner Office went by instinctively applying ideas that might be the seed products for his future success. Right after paying for and graduating university, Bill talked his way right into a work selling copiers door-to-door for Xerox, where he continued to rank number 1 in every product sales position he held and finally became the company’s youngest-ever corporate and business officer. Eventually, Costs remaining Xerox and in 2002 became the unlikely leader of SAP’s flailing American business unit. There, he injected passion and accountability into the demoralized culture by scaling his deli, product sales, and administration strategies. In 2010 2010, Bill was called co-CEO, and in May 2014 became SAP’s exclusive, and initial non-European, CEO.

Colorful and fast-paced, Bill’s anecdotes contain effective takeaways: gutsy career movements; empathetic product sales strategies; bonuses that yield outstanding team performance; and proof the competitive advantages of optimism and hard work. In the centre of Bill’s story is a blueprint for achievement and the data that the true dream may be the journey, not a preconceived destination.