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How Veterans Outscore Their Counterparts on Leadership

Center for Creative Leadership

Our series of industry trend research reports — created using our flagship 360-assessment tool, Benchmarks® for Managers — shows that great similarities exist among leaders across industries including healthcare, pharmaceutical, financial, tech, energy, and government (civilian). Army leaders would stack up against industry leaders.

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Why CEOs have Liberal Arts Degrees

Mills Scofield

They are leading global airline, chemical, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and financial companies, among others. Yet my mind doesn’t light up the same way in microeconomics as it does learning about the overlapping women’s movement, anti-war movement and civil rights movements of the 1960s.

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Why CEOs have Liberal Arts Degrees

Mills Scofield

They are leading global airline, chemical, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and financial companies, among others. Yet my mind doesn’t light up the same way in microeconomics as it does learning about the overlapping women’s movement, anti-war movement and civil rights movements of the 1960s.

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3 Ways to Confront Economic Adversity in 2011

Coaching Tip

Bottom line, the American economy is multi-faceted, robust and resilient. Nannies are for children – not free men and women who want to prosper in the American way by rolling up their sleeves, working hard and keeping what they earn. . They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.” . Entrepreneurship.

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Get Ready for the New Era of Global Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

The global manufacturing sector is on the threshold of a dynamic new phase that will provide renewed opportunity for manufacturing firms — and a host of new challenges. We see two forces that will dominate global manufacturing in the coming decade. These forces will shift the dynamics of the global manufacturing sector.

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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business Review

The debate about superstar firms and superstar effects has been intensifying, partly in response to the rapid growth of global US tech companies. In our recent research at the McKinsey Global Institute, we examined the superstar phenomenon across firms, as well as sectors and cities. Wider dynamics may be at play.

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The First Step to Fixing U.S. Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. As a group, the largest U.S. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs.