Winners Dream: A Journey From Corner Store To Corner Office

  • Author: Bill McDermott
  • Narrator: Bill McDermott
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 10:21:01
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Synopsis

A leadership and career manifesto told through the narrative of one of today’s most inspiring, admired, and successful global leaders.

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.

Chapters

  • WinnersDream 01 Title

    Duration: 24s
  • WinnersDream 02 Dedication

    Duration: 28s
  • WinnersDream 03 Part1Ch1

    Duration: 20min
  • WinnersDream 04 Ch2

    Duration: 26min
  • WinnersDream 05 Ch3

    Duration: 10min
  • WinnersDream 06 Ch4

    Duration: 31min
  • WinnersDream 07 Ch5

    Duration: 12min
  • WinnersDream 08 Part2Ch6

    Duration: 20min
  • WinnersDream 09 Ch7

    Duration: 20min
  • WinnersDream 10 Ch8

    Duration: 21min
  • WinnersDream 11 Ch9

    Duration: 37min
  • WinnersDream 12 Part3Ch10

    Duration: 16min
  • WinnersDream 13 Ch11

    Duration: 38min
  • WinnersDream 14 Ch12

    Duration: 26min
  • WinnersDream 15 Ch13

    Duration: 11min
  • WinnersDream 16 Ch14

    Duration: 22min
  • WinnersDream 17 Ch15

    Duration: 18min
  • WinnersDream 18 Part4Ch16

    Duration: 16min
  • WinnersDream 19 Ch17

    Duration: 08min
  • WinnersDream 20 Ch18

    Duration: 09min
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