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.
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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