Bloomberg View: Leadership Secrets of the Great CEOs

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By Michael R. Bloomberg

December 11, 2014 at 10:13 PM UTC

This article is part of the December 15, 2014 issue of businessweek.

Bloomberg View: Leadership Secrets of the Great CEOs — Photographers: Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Images (Hastings); Taylor Hill/Filmmagic/Getty Images (Schultz); Kevin Mazur/Wireimage/WWD/ Getty Images (Furstenberg); Jonathan Alcorn/Bloomberg (Roberts)

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