Berlitz for the Boss: Where to go to pick up the tools for coping with the increasing pressures of being at the pinnacle - Training

Chief Executive, The,  Dec, 2001  by Dale Buss

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Major revelation: "I'd always considered myself to be a reasonably good businessman. But this gave me more confidence," he says. "You don't have to be an MBA to run a multimillion-dollar company."

Biggest takeaways: First, "that I wasn't the only person feeling the way I was," he says. On a more practical level, Martin also left with performance-measuring tools: "non-promotable," "trainable," or "promotable." "It makes it easier to cull and to promote people who need to be promoted," he says.

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