August 2015
Beginner
320 pages
7h 28m
English
Content preview from Discover Your True North
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New Leaders Featured in Discover Your True North
| Name | Title | Organization |
| Abby Falik | Founder | Global Citizen Year |
| Alan Mulally | CEO | Ford Motor |
| Arianna Huffington | Founder | Huffington Post |
| Brad Garlinghouse | Founder | Hightail |
| Brian Cornell | CEO | Target |
| Chade-Meng Tan | Jolly Good Fellow | |
| David Thai | Founder | Viet Thai International |
| Donald Graham | CEO | Washington Post Company |
| Ellen Langer | Professor of Psychology | Harvard University |
| Erskine Bowles | Cochair | President's Commission on Fiscal Stability |
| Gail Klintworth | Senior Vice President of Sustainability | Unilever |
| Hank Paulson | Secretary of Treasury and former Chair and CEO | Goldman Sachs |
| Harish Manwani | Chief Operating Officer | Unilever |
| Indra Nooyi | CEO | PepsiCo |
| Jack Ma | Founder | Alibaba |
| Jes Lipson | Founder | ShareFile |
| Jim Wallis | Founder | Sojourners |
| Joe Jimenez | CEO | Novartis |
| John Hope Bryant | Founder | Operation Hope |
| John Mackey | Founder and Co-CEO | Whole Foods Market(continued) |
| Ken Frazier | CEO | Merck |
| Lance Armstrong | Cyclist | |
| Leena Nair | Vice President of Human Resources | Unilever |
| Lord John Browne | CEO | British Petroleum |
| Mark Zuckerberg | Founder and CEO | |
| Michael Bloomberg | Founder and CEO; former Mayor | Bloomberg; New York City |
| Nelson Mandela | President | South Africa |
| Omar Ishrak | CEO | Medtronic |
| Paul Polman | CEO | Unilever |
| Pedro Algorta | Survivor of Uruguayan rugby team's crash in the Andes | |
| Peilung Li | Chair | SoftBank China |
| Peter Loescher | CEO | Siemens |
| Rajat Gupta | Worldwide Managing Director | McKinsey |
| Richard Fuld | CEO | Lehman Brothers ... |
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