The Sentinel CEO - Perspectives on Security, Risk, and Leadership in a Post-9/11 World (Electronic book text)

This is a forward-thinking approach to addressing corporate security challenges after 9/11. The "Sentinel CEO" takes a proactive look from the perspective of top executives at the ways business has changed since 9/11. Filled with in-depth interviews with America's leading CEOs, security experts, public officials, and academics, this essential tool underscores how a business' core values can help it address and recover from unforeseen threats. A revealing examination of the subtle and profound ways in which American business has changed, The "Sentinel CEO" explores a variety of risks facing businesses of all sizes that operate in a global environment. This important book includes timely discussion of growing anti-American sentiments worldwide, the avian flu, and the impact of tougher immigration enforcement on the talent pool in the United States. William G. Parrett (New Canaan, CT) is CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and Senior Partner, Deloitte and Touche USA LLP. In a career spanning nearly four decades, he has served many of the leading clients of Deloitte's member firms. He cofounded Deloitte's Global Financial Services Industry practice and served as its first chairman.; In recent years, Mr. Parrett has led Deloitte's participation at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum.