High Standards, hard Choices takes a rare look at the convictions of a man on the front lines during a time when companies were reborn and heroes were made.

High Standards, hard Choices delivers an unusually vivid account of major chalenges confronting a chief executive at the helm of a swifty changing corporation. Along the way, mead became one of Corporate America's most respected ambassadors to Congress, the White House, and several international assemblies of business executives.

The essence of a taugh-minded, humanitarian brand of leadership, Mead's High Standards, Hard Choices will be a source of inspiration for readers of a walks of management life.