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What makes a CEO “exceptional”?

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New CEOs face enormous challenges as they start assembling a management team and setting a strategic direction in today’s volatile environment. This article from McKinsey looks to provide some guidance for transitioning CEOs and examined “exceptional” CEOs, those defined as the very top performers in a data set of roughly 600 chief executives at S&P 500 companies between 2004 and 2014. The findings may surprise you!

http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/what-makes-a-ceo-exceptional?cid=other-eml-alt-mkq-mck-oth-1704&hlkid=f0444b69a6cc46a7b16ad9a32a0c3cad&hctky=1409132&hdpid=3cfbdd03-aea9-4ac2-8687-5dc1913c8020

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