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<p>Most business leaders can take only so much pressure before their performance slides. Yet some CEOs deliver their greatest successes when times get toughest—when customers’ preferences are shifting away from a company’s products, when new regulations are shrinking profit margins, when political unrest is destroying supply lines.</p> <p>In <i>Better Under Pressure</i>, Justin Menkes reveals the common traits that make these leaders successful. Drawing on in-depth interviews with sixty CEOs from an array of industries and performance data from two hundred other leaders, Menkes shows that great executives strive relentlessly to maximize their own potential—as well as stoke their people’s innate thirst for their own triumphs. To do so, they draw on a set of three essential and rare attributes:</p> <p> Realistic optimism: They recognize the risks threatening their organization’s survival—and their own failings—while remaining confident in their ability to have an impact.<br> Subservience to purpose: They dedicate themselves to pursuing a noble cause and win their team’s commitment to that cause.<br> Finding order in chaos: They find clarity amid the many variables affecting thei

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Author

Justin Menkes

Publisher

Harvard Business Review Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781422143155

Category

business

Subjects

Business, Management

Rating

4.3 / 5 (52 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14