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What Top Performing CEOs Really Do

HBR On Leadership

CHAPTER

The Importance of Characteristics in CEO Selection

There are about, I think, 6 million CEO jobs in this country alone. Almost the equal amount of CEOs who graduated from Ivy League schools under graduate as they were who didn't actually graduate from college at all. When we looked at their performance, guess what? It actually didn't matter. And you're talking about the CEOs who were extremely effective.

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