Are leaders portable?
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Summary
The authors study the careers of 20 former GE executives who went on to lead other major organizations, with strikingly uneven results, and challenge the conventional wisdom on human capital, which holds that general management is readily transferable and company specific skills are not.
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- article
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- 2006-05-01
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Keywords
Human capital, Leverage (statistics), Business, Human resources, Stock (firearms)
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