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Accelerating growth in a high-tech company

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Bob CreminBob Cremin, chairman, president and CEO of defense contractor Esterline Technologies, talks Sept. 25, 2008, at Thunderbird School of Global Management about streamlining operations, boosting stock values, empowering employees and “doing the right thing.”
Full length: Accelerating growth in a high-tech company (29:37)
Condensed: Empowering employees (4:57)

 

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The science behind global mindset

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Mansour JavidanSome business leaders excel when their companies send them overseas to do business in foreign environments. Others flop. Thunderbird Professor Mansour Javidan, Ph.D., decided to find out why. The result was the Global Mindset Inventory, a scientific instrument that measures a person’s capacity to influence people from different cultural backgrounds.
Audio: What makes a global leader special? (2:17)

 

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