As one of the world’s most respected executives, Jim Kilts knows what it takes not just to succeed in business, but to truly excel in the toughest environments. His career started as a production assistant and led eventually to heading up renowned turnarounds at Gillette, Kraft, and Nabisco. Kilts is known as the CEO who gets the right things done.

In DOING WHAT MATTERS: The Revolutionary Old-School Approach to Business Success and Why It Works, Kilts melds decades of experience and knowledge with a back-to-basics yet cutting edge thinking to create a integrated approach of planning and action to get the results that count. With refreshing candor and vivid examples from his business life, Kilts outlines the no-nonsense steps to cutting out the clutter and doing what really matters.