Advice from chief executives suggests you need to know your markets, tweak your products and then push your brand.

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You don't just go down to the factory floor and promote a 35-year-old person to be chief executive officer, you need to groom them.

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As well, you not only need to have a clear mission here, but you need to have a commander in chief with a clear vision who sets clear goals for our military.

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At their next meeting two weeks later, the chief executive declared, "I am not sure you are what I need in an HR leader, " and said that he preferred someone more focused on controlling staffing costs.

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Business school can give you many of the useful attributes you need to be a successful entrepreneur, says Aloysius Fekete, chief executive of London-based start-up MaxBips.

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But, as SpaceX chief Elon Musk likes to point out, Dragon is designed with windows and you don't need windows for cargo.

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"When you have the UK's rarest orchid on your garden you need to take every precaution to protect it and we are having those conversations, " chief executive Gary Verity said.

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