August 2015
Beginner
320 pages
7h 28m
English
Content preview from Discover Your True North
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Participants from the Original Research for True North
| Name | Title | Organization |
| Addison “Tad” Piper | CEO | Piper Jaffray |
| Akshata Murthy | Student | Stanford Business School |
| Alan Horn | President | Warner Bros. |
| Ann Fudge | CEO | Young & Rubicam |
| Ann Moore | CEO | Time Inc. |
| Anne Mulcahy | CEO | Xerox |
| Bill Campbell | Chairman | Intuit |
| Brenda Barnes | CEO | Sara Lee |
| Bruce Chizen | CEO | Adobe Systems |
| Cesar Conde | Vice President | Univision |
| Charles Schwab | CEO | Charles Schwab |
| Chris O'Connell | Senior Vice President | Medtronic |
| Dave Cox | CEO | Cowles Media |
| David Pottruck | Co-CEO | Charles Schwab |
| David Gergen | Director | Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School |
| Denise O'Leary | Venture capitalist | |
| Dick Kovacevich | CEO | Wells Fargo |
| Donna Dubinsky | CEO | Numenta |
| Doug Baker Jr. | CEO | Ecolab |
| Daniel Vasella | CEO | Novartis |
| Reatha Clark King | President | General Mills Foundation |
| Roy Vagelos | Former CEO | Merck |
| Gail McGovern | Professor | Harvard Business School (continued) |
| Howard Schultz | Chairman | Starbucks |
| Ian Chan | Founder | U.S. Genomics |
| Jack Brennan | CEO | Vanguard |
| Jaime Irick | Vice President | General Electric |
| Jean-Pierre Rosso | Chairman | World Economic Forum USA |
| Jeff Immelt | CEO | General Electric |
| John Donahoe | CEO | eBay |
| Jon Huntsman Sr. | Chairman | Huntsman |
| Judy Haberkorn | President, Consumer Sales | Verizon |
| Judy Vredenburgh | CEO | Big Brothers Big Sisters of America |
| Keith Krach | Former CEO | Ariba |
| Kent Thiry | CEO | DaVita |
| Kevin Sharer | CEO | Amgen |
| Lisa Dawe | Regional Operations Director | DaVita |
| Marilyn Carlson Nelson | CEO | Carlson Companies ... |
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