The mood inside the boardroom was celebratory. For months the directors of this multibillion-dollar industrial and consumer-goods company had been searching for a successor to their longtime CEO. After interviewing multiple candidates, they’d unanimously voted to make an offer.
The outside recrui
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DAN CIAMPA
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