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Special Report: Training and Development—Building Better Leaders...Faster

  

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1. Tiered Mentoring at Infosys
The company’s Leadership Institute splits its leaders into three tiers. Each is mentored by more senior colleagues, and they also apply and are evaluated for formal leadership training.

2. The CEO Incubators


3. Training the Top at GE
Although GE’s best practices for leadership development are widely studied and emulated by other companies, the results are rarely duplicated.


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The CEO Incubators


As of October 2007, 20 percent of the CEOs at the largest U.S. companies once held a position at just 20 companies. The list below shows the companies that produced the highest number of CEOs as a proportion of their employee population. Note that companies with a smaller proportion of white-collar professional employees are disadvantaged under this methodology.
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Company Employees CEOs produced Odds
McKinsey & Co. 11,000 16 1-in-690
Deloitte & Touche 17,170 8 1-in-2,150
Baxter International 48,000 11 1-in-4,365
PricewaterhouseCoopers 47,750 10 1-in-4,775
Ernst & Young 103,000 12 1-in-8,585
Merrill Lynch 62,200 7 1-in-8,885
Motorola 66,000 7 1-in-9,430
Intel 88,100 8 1-in-11,010
Procter & Gamble 138,000 12 1-in-11,500
General Electric 300,000 26 1-in-11,540
Honeywell 118,000 10 1-in-11,800
Novartis 100,735 8 1-in-12,590
PepsiCo 168,000 13 1-in-12,925
Disney 133,000 9 1-in-14,780
ExxonMobil 106,400 7 1-in-15,200
Johnson & Johnson 122,200 8 1-in-15,275
IBM 366,485 18 1-in-20,360
AT&T 301,840 13 1-in-23,220
Citigroup 332,000 11 1-in-30,180
Note: The company that rounds out the top 20, Arthur Andersen, is now defunct.
Source: Capital IQ, based on Securities and Exchange Commission public filing data

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Although GE’s best practices for leadership development are widely studied and emulated by other companies, the results are rarely duplicated.

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