Becoming the Best: Build a World-Class Organization Through Values-Based Leadership
Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr.
May 2025 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Walter Dixon
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What does it mean in practice to be a values-based leader? When faced with real situations, how can you be your best self and create best teams-while also being a best partner with customers and vendors, a best investment for your stakeholders, and a best citizen making a difference in the world? In his bestselling book From Values to Action, Harry Kraemer showed how self-reflection, balance, true self-confidence, and genuine humility are the traits of today's most effective leaders. In Becoming the Best, his highly anticipated follow-up, Kraemer reveals how, in practical terms, anyone can apply these principles to become a values-based leader and to help create values-based organizations. Drawing on his own experiences as the former CEO and chairman of Baxter International, as well as those of other notable leaders and organizations, Kraemer lays out a pathway for understanding the principles and putting them into practice. Regardless of level or job title, individuals can make a difference in their organization and beyond by embodying the essential traits of a great leader. Becoming the Best offers a definitive, actionable guide to show anyone how to apply in practice the principles of values-based leadership personally and professionally, making it an indispensable manual for the new wave of better leaders.
About the author
Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr., is professor of management and strategy at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, where he teaches in the MBA and the Executive MBA programs. He is also an an executive partner with Madison Dearborn Partners, one of the largest private equity firms in the United States.
Walter Dixon is a winner of Audible's "#1 Editor's Choice and Customer Favorites" award. He has narrated more than 200 audiobooks; performed in musical theater, drama and opera productions, and professional stand-up comedy; and voiced commercials, corporate videos, animated features, and vintage radio dramas.
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