In the blueprint for secondary education in England, published on Monday, students will have to pass tests in three "core" skills needed for the workplace - literacy, maths and information and communications technology.

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But O'Neill refocused Alcoa on its core products, made a huge push for workplace safety, sold its corporate aircraft and hacked away at decades of hierarchy to help encourage ideas from the bottom up.

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