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Feb 2018
24m 56s

Does Your Firm See You as a High Potenti...

Harvard Business Review
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Jay Conger, a leadership professor at Claremont McKenna College, goes behind the scenes to show how you can get on, and stay on, your company's fast track. He demystifies how companies (often very secretly) develop and update their list of high-potential employees. And he discusses five critical "X factors" his research has shown are common to high-potential ... Show More
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