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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

A simple illustration perhaps is a CEO of a large injection molding firm, who might be well suited to a brewing and bottling company. The CFO candidate might get by with only a broad sector experience in manufacturing, finance, or technology. You will subconsciously know when a candidate is CEO material.

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Expedia Layoffs To Affect 9% Of Workforce In a Bid To Refocus Resources

HR Digest

The travel platform had been hit hard during the COVID-19 pandemic as the travel bans cut sharply into their business earnings, but the company made a clean comeback soon after, with their annual revenue for 2023 growing to $12.8 billion USD, marking a 10 percent year-over-year growth.

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Leaders Lessons from an Outward Bound Wilderness Instructor

Great Leadership By Dan

This argument was introduced by New York Life CEO Ted Mathas , while speaking at an event hosted by Outward Bound USA that honored New York Life Foundation's work with grieving teens. Mathas, himself an alumnus of Outward Bound’s wilderness programs, made the connection as he discussed his journey to becoming an effective CEO.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

More often it's an implicit contract, a buildup of organizational and cultural norms and the adoption of new technologies that make it easy to tether people to work. We've traveled far and fast from the old world of business ethics, where black-and-white concerns about bribery and fraud could be addressed via rules and processes.

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What this CEO Learned from Having Covid-19

Skip Prichard

Though we did not travel for the holidays, and I maintained social distancing, wore a mask, washed my hands, sanitized constantly, and disinfected everything, I found that the virus somehow invaded my space anyway. Skip Prichard is the CEO of OCLC, Inc. As sick as I was, I knew I would be positive for COVID-19.

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Benefits of Studying Automotive Engineering

Strategy Driven

This means that you have a lot of opportunities to showcase your creativity and improve it with time, like CEO Patrick James. If you want to travel the world and work on different kinds of the latest technology, then this field is for you. Money is not just a motivation for some people; it is necessary for everyone.

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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2020

Leading Blog

And what about the stories we've all heard over the years about sick patients—whether infected with Ebola or COVID-19—who were sent home or allowed to travel because busy staff people were following a protocol to the letter rather than using common sense? Why and how do these kinds of things happen?

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