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Being square is a hip competitive advantage for Minneapolis-based Geek Squad. The mobile tech-support firm's special agents, with their "geekmobiles" and artfully nerdy attire, are on call 24 hours a day to save customers from a range of computer malfunctions—even the blue screen of death. (Updated September 2006) |
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On the day Xerox announced Anne Mulcahy as its new CEO in 2001, the company's stock plummeted 15 percent. Today Mulcahy is widely credited with rescuing the fabled copier company from the brink and is one of seven women heading a Fortune 500 firm. (Updated September 2006) |
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In little over three decades, Bill Gates has led a computing revolution, thrilled a new generation of gamers, and launched a global immunization task force. What's on the mind of the Microsoft founder as he thinks ahead to the future? (Updated April 2006) |
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The recent passing of management guru Peter F. Drucker was met with warm remembrances and retrospectives, as business leaders and analysts alike heaped accolades on the 95-year-old Claremont University professor hailed by many as the "father of modern management." (Updated December 2005) |
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Women over the past 30 years have made enormous strides in developing highly successful careers at every level of business. Yet despite the fact that women have become heads of corporations, nonprofit organizations, and even states, the question remains: Why aren't more CEOs women? Longtime management expert and NYU Stern School of Business professor Sheila Wellington has some answers. (Updated December 2005) |
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What does it take to become a successful leader? This book review quotes several CEO's and lists six strategies to become a successful leader. (Updated June 2004) |
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Adrian Aucoin, a defensive player for the New York Islanders (NHL), argues that many players within his NHL team share the leadership role. (Updated February 2004) |
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