The CEO Chronicles : Lessons from the Top about Inspiration and Leadership

Fifty CEOs share their struggles with career and family in this unique look inside the minds of top managers--exposing the pressures, stresses, and rewards that come with the job. Original.

Glenn Rifkin is a veteran business journalist and author based in Boston. Since 1989, Rifkin has been a regular contributor to The New York Times business section, covering the high-tech industry in the Boston area and around the country. Rifkin writes extensively on marketing strategies for Strategy & Business, and has contributed regularly to Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and Forbes ASAP.

Rifkin is the co-author, along with Sam I. Hill, of Radical Marketing: From Harvard to Harley, Lessons From Ten That Broke the Rules and Made It Big. In addition, Rifkin co-authored, with George Harrar, The Ultimate Entrepreneur: The Story of Ken Olsen and Digital Equipment Corporation, which made several regional best-seller lists.

Rifkin's work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, FORTUNE, Working Woman, Yankee, Billboard, Playboy, Runner's World, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, and Upside magazine. He has been a regular commentator on business and technology for WBUR, the National Public Radio station in Boston.

Douglas Matthews is a San Diego-based freelance writer with twelve years' experience writing and producing business-to-business and marketing communications that help companies educate, inform, and motivate their customers, employees, and other key constituencies.

Matthews' clients include a diverse range of entrepreneurial firms, including TEC, the world's leading CEO education and development organization; Mail Boxes Etc., the largest franchiser of small business services; and the Kauffman Foundation Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, a division of the prestigious Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation that works with fast-growth entrepreneurs. Matthews has also ghostwritten books and articles for several prominent management consultants.

Throughout his career, Matthews has interviewed hundreds of CEOs in companies of all sizes and in all industries, giving him a unique perspective on the personalities of--and the issues that shape--today's business leaders.