Shapers and Founders

The Untold Stories of Asia’s Extraordinary Owner-CEOs

How Asia’s top owner-CEOs fueled the regions rise, and what every leader around the world can learn

Shapers and Founders: The Untold Stories of Asia’s Extraordinary Owner-CEOs, written by a team of McKinsey partners, reveals the leadership strategies behind Asia’s highest-performing entrepreneur-led companies. Drawing on rigorous empirical research, hundreds of hours of interviews, and deep personal relationships built over decades of advisory work, the authors distill the distinctive leadership playbook that has powered Asias rise.

Shapers and Founders explores how, in boardrooms and backstreets alike, these founders have built national champions and global contenders, often from modest beginnings and in unforgiving markets. Through candid, in-depth conversations with founders across Mumbai, Shanghai, Tokyo, Bangkok, Singapore, Taipei and Sydney, the