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Leaders, Choose Your Words Wisely

Harvard Business Review

My professor, Ram Charan, noticed that my schoolwork was starting to slip. Ultimately, I saw this man''s picture a couple of weeks later and discovered that he was Jim McFarland, the CEO and Chairman of General Mills. I had been with General Mills for six months and I was up for my first performance review.