October 2004
Beginner
288 pages
7h 33m
English
book
Nightly Business Report Presents Lasting Leadership: What You Can Learn from the Top 25 Business People of our Times
by Mukul Pandya, Robbie Shell, Susan Warner, Sandeep Junnarkar, Jeffrey Brown
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In June 2000, John Bogle, founder and former CEO of the Vanguard Group, spoke about leadership at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. As an avid group of executives listened to the man who popularized the principle of index-based investing—and in the process built the Vanguard Group into a firm managing more than $550 billion in assets—Bogle ended his speech quoting James Norris, a Vanguard manager, who wrote: “While it is revealing to consider...what constitutes a leader, your search for understanding, for some kind of leadership formula, is apt to end in frustration. It is like studying Michelangelo or Shakespeare: You can imitate, emulate, and simulate, but there is simply no connect-the-dots formula to Michelangelo’s ...
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