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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

greater annualized total shareholder return (TSR) 7.7% 3) What is it that can drive our economic engine? Recent research has shown that “high purpose” companies — those who have a point of view on social issues, innovate with purpose, and have a commitment to society — outperform “low purpose companies.” greater revenue growth 34.7%

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

greater annualized total shareholder return (TSR). 3) What is it that can drive our economic engine? Recent research has shown that “high purpose” companies — those who have a point of view on social issues, innovate with purpose, and have a commitment to society — outperform “low purpose companies.” greater revenue growth.

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GE’s Fall Has Been Accelerated by Two Problems. Most Other Big Companies Face Them, Too.

Harvard Business Review

Along with a surprise halving of the dividend, Flannery announced a review of the portfolio that would see the divestitures of numerous historic GE businesses, which ended up including light bulbs, appliances, and locomotive engines. Well, Ed Garten isn’t a board member of a Dow Jones 30 company anymore.

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Overcome Your Biases and Build a Great Team

Harvard Business Review

in January 1968 as a young 22-year old with $8 in his pocket and an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Bombay. I had an unlikely journey to the top. Born in India, I arrived in the U.S. Thirty-one years later, I became Chairman and CEO of a global Fortune 300 company. How did this happen? I was fortunate, to be sure.

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