April 13, 2011 - by Daniel R. Tobin
Most of the literature and examples of "best practices" for developing a company's next generation of leaders cite the efforts of large companies, with GE being the most common example of excellent practice and results in growing their own leaders. These large companies... More »
April 13, 2011 - by Pat Galagan
In 1961, Fred Turner, McDonald's former senior chairman and Ray Kroc's first grill man, founded Hamburger University in the basement of a McDonald's restaurant in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, making McDonald's the first restaurant organization to open a full-time traini... More »
April 13, 2011 - by Herb Greenberg, Patrick Sweeney
As far as painful memories are concerned, most of the extremely difficult decisions we as leaders had to make after the Fall of 2008 will remain with us forever. The world was changing, and we had to change to stay afloat. Resources were limited everywhere we turned. Ti... More »
April 13, 2011 - by Emily King
A few years ago, a growing manufacturing company began to think about military veterans as a pipeline for leadership talent. The company's president, Jack, was himself a retired military officer and thought highly of job candidates with military backgrounds. In anticipa... More »
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