What surprised me was most of the b-school academics had no general management knowledge or experience or skills.

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The new employee has to add real value to the business, which could be specific knowledge or experience in the field, he says.

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The questioning led Weadock to admit he had no programming experience or knowledge of source code.

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Ten (10) to fifteen15 years of international finance or banking experience including solid knowledge of asset management with at least five years at levels of increasing responsibility, preferably in a similiar position.

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Some CIOs and CTOs are capable of leveraging their experience, knowledge and skills in technologies or systems into the creation and leadership of companies.

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The selection process puts socially defined characteristics, such as the outsized reputation of an executive like Mr Dimon, ahead of relevant practical skills and experience (Mr Dimon had little knowledge of retail banking or credit-card operations, two of Bank One's biggest and, in the second case, most problematic businesses).

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Regardless of your position or function in your organization, you possess a wealth of knowledge and experience unique from anyone else.

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But to be conservative implies either cautious uncertainty or the confidence of an assured taste informed by decades of knowledge and experience, undisturbed by any need to make waves for their own sake.

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It is built on absolutely substantial experience, knowledge linked to a historical tradition, which is neither reactionary or codified.

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