VIEW FROM THE TOP

ENDORSEMENTS

Pat Gelsinger

Michael Lindsay continues to impress as one of the foremost thinkers on the topic of leadership. Drawing on a massive wealth of firsthand data he draws, with clarity, insights into what creates great leaders—and more importantly, the attributes, skills and techniques each of us should add to our leadership arsenal.”

Pat Gelsinger
CEO, VMware

Kerry Healey

If you ever wanted to know what the lives of top CEOs and national leaders are really like, read View from the Top. With a decade of in-depth interviews with Fortune 100 CEOs, U.S. Presidents and top leaders in religion, academia and philanthropy, Michael Lindsay reveals how they got there, why they do it and the price they pay for power.”

Kerry Healey, Ph.D.
President, Babson College

Rakesh Khurana

View from the Top is one of those rare books in leadership research that deftly connects biography to the larger social structure and society. Interweaving the individual within the larger social context, Lindsay has written an important book for anyone who seriously thinks about how to create the conditions for inspiring future generations to seek passion and purpose, so that they can bring the moral and practical energies necessary to renew our political, social, and economic institutions.”

Rakesh Khurana
Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Harvard Business School

Michael Useem

Michael Lindsay has personally interviewed more than 500 of America’s premier business, political, and non-profit leaders, a tour de force, and what strikingly emerges from his inside portrait of the careers and views of those at the top is the value of seizing opportunity, navigating networks, and garnering trust. For an outside observer or future denizen of this national elite, View from the Top offers an invaluable and authoritative account.”

Michael Useem
Professor and Director of the Leadership Center, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and co-author of Boards That Lead

Rich McClure

This is a seminal and compelling work. Dr. Michael Lindsay, university president and sociologist, gained unprecedented access to hundreds of leaders of America’s elite institutions, and reached many unexpected conclusions. For example, it’s not a privileged upbringing, but the influence of a caring mentor early in a developing career (as well as grit and opportunity) that launches careers of highly influential leaders. Dr. Lindsay found that the best leaders are not primarily ego-driven, but are able to influence a shared organizational vision and submerge their ego so as to be credible stewards of a greater cause. View from the Top reveals the hidden attributes of those blessed with the platform of leadership—and explores what defines a leader’s identity beyond the title on their business card.”

Rich McClure
President, UniGroup (United Van Lines and Mayflower Transit)

Michael Gerson

Michael Lindsay’s View from the Top recounts the experiences of a wide variety of leaders—in both success and failure—to reveal a deeper understanding of leadership: cause-oriented, people-driven, sacrificial and reflective. Drawing from a variety of fields, Lindsay draws out some of the common elements of excellence. Anyone interested in the subject of leadership—or interested in exercising it—would benefit from reading View from the Top.”

Michael Gerson
Columnist, the Washington Post

Andy Crouch

This is an informative and inspiring book for any leader, drawing on unprecedented personal access and a keen sense of the dynamics of leaders’ institutions and personal lives. It contains both celebrations of the ways power can be used for good, and warnings of how slippery its effects can be on both leader and led. It is an indispensable catalog of stories and insights for those of us who want our use of power to be both effective and redemptive.”

Andy Crouch
Executive editor, Christianity Today, and author, Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power

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“If you ever wanted to know what the lives of top CEOs and national leaders are really like, read View from the Top.

Kerry Healey, Ph.D.,
President, Babson College

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