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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. When Knudstorp took over as CEO in 2004, he quickly settled on a course of action: return the company to its core. billion in revenue.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.