Not just from his tenure as Chairman & CEO of Sears, Roebuck and Co., where he led one of the greatest corporate transformations in business history, but also as Vice Chairman of Saks Fifth Avenue, CFO of BATUS, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and as a Director for other Fortune 500 companies. Named "CEO of the Year" by Financial World and "Top Manager of the Year" by BusinessWeek, Arthur Martinez is also the author of The Hard Road to the Softer Side: Lessons From the Transformation of Sears. In the book, Martinez offers a candid account of one of the biggest and most intriguing business stories of our time—the two transformations of his company and its struggle to emerge from its old-economy shell into a new-economy winner.

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