xxii, 186 pages : 24 cm
"Terrorism is hardly a contemporary phenomenon. But it is ever present today, and its manifestations more diverse than ever before. U.S. companies conducting business abroad have an obligation to their stakeholders to be more attuned to local customs and standards if they expect to be effective - and to mitigate risk - in the global business arena. The Sentinel CEO shares the insights of various CEOs on changes they have adopted to sustain their leadership while providing security to their employees and companies in turbulent times."--BOOK JACKET
Includes bibliographical references and index

ia/sentinelceopersp0000parr.pdf

William G. Parrett

John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated

Spectrum Publications

Halsted Press

United States, United States of America

Hoboken, N.J, New Jersey, 2007

June 29, 2007

1, PS, 2007

<p><b>Sustain Leadership—in a post-9/11 world—Minimize Risk</b></p>
<p>What does it take to maintain leadership in today's turbulent global environment? In <i>The Sentinel CEO</i>, leading executives, security chiefs, and academics provide candid insights into how business-as-usual has changed in the wake of 9/11.</p>
<p>William Parrett, Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, shares his four decades of expertise to help business leaders, executives, and government officials understand and mitigate risks in this age of globalization. Revealing interviews with executives from America's leading corporations, including MetLife, Convergys, and Cantor Fitzgerald, help explain how CEOs and others have defined and achieved sustainable leadership after 9/11. Focusing on two broad issues—the evolution of corporate security and risk management as executive-level strategic functions, as well as the new focus on mastering the unexpected—<i>The Sentinel CEO</i> explores:</p>
<ul>
<li>The branding dilemma: how U.S. companies are rethinking their image abroad</li>
<li>Lessons learned: CEOs discuss how their companies are anticipating and coping with terrorist threats and attacks</li>
<li>Opportunity and risk in China and India</li>
<li>"Imagining the unimaginable": how to look more closely at the real and unanticipated dangers of avian influenza</li>
<li>Safeguarding security, as it pertains to travel, physical facilities, employees, and data</li>
<li>The newest employee: how the Chief Security Officer is fast becoming a key decision maker in the top management of many U.S. companies and an indispensable ally of the CEO</li>
<li>The precarious balance between enhancing security and maintaining America's ability to attract and retain foreign talent and business sustainability</li>
<li>Sustaining leadership in an age when business is confronted with new risks and challenges as well as unprecedented opportunity</li>
</ul>
<p>Dealing with risk and security has become an all-consuming task for today's business executives. <i>The Sentinel CEO</i> helps businesses prepare for an eventuality.</p>

A forward-thinking approach to addressing corporate security challenges after 9/11 The Sentinel CEO takes a proactive look-from the perspective of top executives-at the ways business has changed since 9/11. Filled with in-depth interviews with America's leading CEOs, security experts, public officials, and academics, this essential tool underscores how a business's core values can help it address and recover from unforeseen threats. A revealing examination of the subtle and profound ways in which American business has changed, The Sentinel CEO explores a variety of risks facing businesses of all sizes that operate in a global environment. This important book includes timely discussion of growing anti-American sentiments worldwide, the avian flu, and the impact of tougher immigration enforcement on the talent pool in the United States.

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