Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes To Make Them Great

The author is an experienced executive, a respected leader, and a veteran of the usual corporate team-building exploits, including trekking through the steamy rain forests of Costa Rica. But nothing, including grinning crocodiles and howling monkeys, prepared him for the challenge he was handed at the end of 2000: to put together a leadership team that could, with few new resources or technology, rapidly build a successful business. The author talks about the food service business he took over after the merger of Best foods and Unilever as "A child with no family."