How they made it to the top [Management Review]

If you´ve ever wondered what makes the most successful managers so special, then help is at hand. E&T reads a new book on the ups and downs of life at the top of the corporate ladder. You´re determined to make it as CEO. You´ve modelled and managed your career step by step to be an effective leader, delegator, negotiator, risk taker and business builder. You´ve got the necessary ´get up and go´ and you´re ready to seize the next great opportunity. You´re ready for the final hurdle. But do you really have any idea what´s involved running a major company? Did Tony Hayward have a full grasp of the awesome challenges ahead when he was hoisted into the top job at BP? How could the chairman, a former CEO of a global company and only appointed in January, have any idea? How did more than 200 of the world´s top bosses interviewed by the authors make it as corporate leaders?