For the past five years, Rubenstein has spoken with the world's highest performing leaders about who they are and how they became successful. Here he distills these revealing conversations into an indispensable leadership guidebook. These agents of change discuss how they got started and how they handle decision making, failure, innovation, change, and crisis. -- adapted from jacket.

Includes index. "Interviews in this book originally appeared on The David Rubenstein Show: peer to peer conversations"--Title page verso.

Introduction -- Visionaries. Jeff Bezos -- Bill Gates -- Sir Richard Branson -- Oprah Winfrey -- Warren Buffett -- Builders. Phil Knight -- Ken Griffin -- Robert F. Smith -- Jamie Dimon -- Marillyn Hewson -- Transformers. Melinda Gates -- Eric Schmidt -- Tim Cook -- Ginni Rometty -- Indra Nooyi -- Commanders. President George W. Bush & President Bill Clinton -- General Colin Powell -- General David Petraeus -- Condoleezza Rice -- James A. Baker III -- Decision-makers. Representative Nancy Pelosi -- Adam Silver -- Christine Lagarde -- Dr. Anthony S. Fauci -- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- Masters. Jack Nicklaus -- Mike "Coach K" Krzyzewski -- Renée Fleming -- Yo-Yo Ma -- Lorne Michaels.