Tough calls from the corner office : top business leaders reveal the most important decisions they ever made--and the lessons they hold for us all / Harlan Steinbaum.

The road taken: making key career choices -- Leaving the mother ship: taking the entrepreneurial leap -- Love and marriage: finding or shedding business partners -- Betting the farm: risking success for more success -- Hearts and minds: creating a new corporate culture -- The mother of invention: transforming the company's business model -- Sea change: repositioning, refocusing, and renewing a business -- When to fold 'em: knowing when it's time to step aside -- Paths to service: defining moments that transcend business.

Describes the career-making decisions of nearly forty of America's most successful business leaders and the lessons they learned along the way, and includes an appendix of professional advice.