What the Best CEOs Know[c] 7 Exceptional Leaders and Their Lessons for Transforming Any Business

Mammoth Mart, 49

Management:

commitment of, 147

and communication, 160

and cultural change, 121

in the field, 187

four layers of, 184–185

reducing layers of, 186

and strategic inflection points, 145

strategic inflection points accepted by, 144

Market, first to, 212–213

Market capitalization, 30

Marshall, George, 35

McKinsey Global Institute, 217

Meetings, weekend, 205

Memory, corporate, 168–169

Memory chips, 137–138

Merchandising, 213–214

Mergers and acquisitions, 183

Meritocracy, 51

Merrill Lynch, 148

Microprocessors, 45, 138–139

Microsoft, 4, 5, 11, 25, 29, 44

fostering ideas at, 163–165

and IBM, 120

Internet focus of, 162–163

revenues of, 159

stock performance of, 26, 30

success of, 157–159

(See also Gates, Bill)

Mistakes, learning from, 87

Model T Ford, 148

Monitoring growth, 121

Moore, Gordon, 135, 136, 138, 139

Moore's law, 136

Motorola, 47, 96

Mutual funds, 4