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WHAT IS GROWTH? AND IS IT ALWAYS GOOD?
To unleash your organization, forge a growth strategy that helps you become better, not just bigger.
Most administrative assistants don’t go on to become CEO of Fortune 500 companies, but my trailblazing friend Beth Mooney did. After talking her way into a management training program in 1979, she began a meteoric rise in the banking industry, taking on leadership roles at a number of American financial institutions. In 2006, she joined Cleveland, Ohio–based KeyCorp, the country’s fifteenth largest bank, and was tasked with overseeing the bank’s 1,000 local branches.1 She succeeded yet again, and in 2011 the institution named her its chairman and CEO, making her the first woman to lead a top 20 American ...
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