NOTES

INTRODUCTION

1. These numbers come from multiple sources: Del Jones, “Some Firms’ Fertile Soil Grows Crop of Future CEOs,” USA Today, January 9, 2008, http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2008-01-08-ceo-companies_N.htm; Kerima Greene, “McKinsey’s ‘Secret’ Influence on American Business,” CNBC, September 13, 2013, http://www.cnbc.com/id/101030774.

2. Yahoo! Finance, ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/market_cap.

CHAPTER 1

1. Mark Hurd, “The Best Advice I Ever Got,” during his CEO and chairman position at Hewlett-Packard, Fortune, August 4, 2008, accessed January 4, 2014, archive.fortune.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0804/gallery.bestadvice.fortune/6.html.

2. My discussion on early risers draws on multiple sources, which drew on ...

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