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English Football (Soccer) and Executive Development

N2Growth Blog

In the 2013 Top 10 Premier league players, only 2 (Wayne Rooney and Daniel Sturridge) are English, the others are from Uruguay (Luis Suarez), Holland (Robin van Persie), Germany (Mesut Ozil), the Ivory Coast (Yaya Toure), Belgium (Vincent Kompany), Argentina (Sergio Aguer0), Spain (Juan Mata), and Denmark (Christian Eriksen).

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CEOs Should Get Out of the Saddle Before They’re Pushed Out

Harvard Business Review

So it’s consistent with market forces. And a 2013 study by Xueming Luo, Vamsi K. Yes there are exceptions — Steve Jobs and Jack Welch leap to mind. Under her reign, on 1 November 2013, it closed at £1,498.00. Consider: the average tenure of a Fortune 500 CEO is about 4.6

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Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors

Harvard Business Review

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin. Innovation is always the product of teaming.

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A Way to Gauge How Well Your Company Is Really Performing

Harvard Business Review

When Jack Welch was CEO of GE, he famously tasked each business with achieving number 1 or number 2 status in its industry, a goal-setting principle that echoes across the decades. ABC and Acme appear to be doing quite well relative to the market: If you make a simple comparison, they’re around the 80 th percentile.

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Alibaba Looks More Like GE than Google

Harvard Business Review

As the 2010 case describes: By his own admission, Ma was a fan of Jack Welch, so it was only natural that his organization came to resemble that of GE in some regards. As a 2013 HBR article explained, “Conglomerates may be regarded as dinosaurs in the developed world, but in emerging markets, diversified business groups continue to thrive.”.

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