About the Author
Bill George is a senior fellow at Harvard Business School (HBS), where he teaches leadership in executive education programs. He was professor of management practice from 2004 to 2014. He is the author of four best-selling books: Authentic Leadership, True North, Finding Your True North, and 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis, and coauthor of True North Groups with Doug Baker Sr. He is faculty chair of HBS's executive education program Authentic Leadership Development and cochair of Leading Global Enterprises.
He was chair and CEO of Medtronic, the world's leading medical technology company. Under his leadership, Medtronic's market capitalization grew from $1.1 billion to $60 billion, averaging 35 percent a year. He joined Medtronic in 1989 as president and COO, was CEO from 1991 to 2001, and was chairman of the board from 1996 to 2002. Earlier in his career, he was an executive with Honeywell and Litton Industries and served in the U.S. Department of Defense.
He currently serves as a director of Goldman Sachs and the Mayo Clinic and recently served on the boards of ExxonMobil, Novartis, and Target. He is a director of Minnesota's Destination Medical Center Corporation and World Economic Forum USA.
He is the recipient of the 2014 Bower Award for Business Leadership from the Franklin Institute and the 2015 Lawrence A. Wein Award from CECP, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012. He has been named one of the Top 25 Business Leaders of the ...
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