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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. Some of today's top CEOs were history, political science, sociology, chinese and music majors in college. Let's hear it from her. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker.

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Talent Management: Boards Give Their Companies an "F"

Harvard Business Review

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. We know that organizations commit enormous resources and effort to talent management, so why aren''t they doing a better job? Not competitive threats.

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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business Review

The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. They are then reviewed by the company’s Manufacturing Leadership Council.

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Just How Important Is Manufacturing?

Harvard Business Review

Having a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States maintaining its world leadership in innovation. Making parts for an iPhone is a challenging mix of materials science, mechanical engineering, precision fabrication, and managing mind-boggling complexity in the supply chain. to Asia.

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Who's Really Responsible for P&G's Succession Problems?

Harvard Business Review

Where was its leadership bench? What kind of signal did this choice send to P&G''s top managers? Is the problem that P&G produces outstanding specialists in marketing but not general managers who can run the business? We now see they are also struggling to do a good job managing their own talent responsibilities.

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The Rise of the COO

Harvard Business Review

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. In several industries, such as consumer goods, financial services, industrial products, and logistics, COOs usually had backgrounds in either managing operations or information technology departments.

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