Robert Slater

Last updated October 31, 2026

Robert Slater (1943-2014) was an American journalist and author who worked for Time magazine in Jerusalem. He wrote biographies of Israeli leaders and many business books on figures such as Jack Welch, George Soros and Donald Trump.

Books written by Robert Slater

• Great Jews in Sports
• The Titans of Takeover
• The New GE: How Jack Welch Revived an American Institution
• Get Better or Get Beaten! 29 Leadership Secrets from GE's Jack Welch
• Soros: The Life, Times, and Trading Secrets of the World's Greatest Investor
• John Bogle and the Vanguard Experiment: One Man's Quest to Transform the Mutual Fund Industry
• Jack Welch and the GE Way: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO
• Saving Big Blue: Leadership Lessons and Turnaround Tactics of IBM's Lou Gerstner
• The Wal-Mart Decade: How a New Generation of Leaders Turned Sam Walton's Legacy into the World's #1 Company
• No Such Thing as Over-Exposure: Inside the Life and Celebrity of Donald Trump
• Seizing Power: The Grab for Global Oil Wealth
• Martha: On Trial, In Jail, and On a Comeback
• Rabin of Israel: A Biography of the Embattled Prime Minister
• Golda, the Uncrowned Queen of Israel: A Pictorial Biography
• Portraits in Silicon
• This...Is CBS: A Chronicle of 60 Years
• Warrior Statesman: The Life of Moshe Dayan
• Ovitz
• The Eye of the Storm: How John Chambers Steered Cisco Through the Technology Collapse
• Microsoft Rebooted: How Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer Reinvented Their Company