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The Case for Lending Out Your Star Performers

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For example, the power company Tenaga Nasional could send a leader with strong operating capabilities to work for several years at Malaysia Airlines, acquiring skills in turning around a troubled business. He spent two years as the CFO of power and automation company ABB, from 2002 to 2004, before returning to Shell as CFO.

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Five Questions Companies Should Ask Before Making an Innovation-Driven Acquisition

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billion to acquire the webOS operating system, Hewlett-Packard discontinued its webOS-based series of smartphones and line of Touchpad tablets — losing its bet on a webOS-everywhere future. Interestingly, Dominic Caruso also came with the deal for that small biotech company, and he is now the pharma giant's CFO.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

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employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009. the one-click mobile purchasing app), it is the means through which we get work done (e.g.,