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Developing Global Leaders Is America's Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. economy, expands America's global trade, and attracts foreign companies to base operations in the U.S. to take advantage of America's talented leaders.

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True North Groups: A Conversation With Bill George

Harvard Business Review

Upon his retirement in 2002, Bill invented a new life and purpose (by making little bets, I might add shamelessly) to write and to teach. They gave me the encouragement to go back to Medtronic, where I had turned down three times the opportunity to become president and chief operating officer. billion to $60 billion during his tenure.