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Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action
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Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action

by John Spence
September 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
208 pages
3h 53m
English
Jossey-Bass
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2.3. Leading Talent

During the past decade, I have had the honor of teaching a series of advanced programs for employees at a number of organizations who have been selected as having high potential. In companies with tens of thousands of employees, such as Pepsi, Alltel, Abbott Labs, and State Farm Insurance, the senior management team hand-picked a small group of those they felt held great promise as the organization's future leaders and sent them through an intense executive development program to prepare them for the next levels of their careers. For example, I served as one of the lead instructors for a Fortune 100 financial firm that asked me to take nineteen of its sixty-four thousand employees from around the world and run them through ...

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