How do you lead an increasingly diverse, creative and eclectic workforce? It’s a question that senior executives at this month’s Wharton West Leadership Conference tried to answer based on their own leadership experiences. In the following stories, Knowledge@Wharton reports on presentations by Michael Crooke, president and CEO of Patagonia; Anne Livermore, executive vice president of Hewlett-Packard; Vivek Paul, vice chair and president of Wipro Technologies; and Brent Assink and John Goldman, executive director and president, respectively, of the San Francisco Symphony. This section also includes coverage of a recent talk at Wharton on leadership by Don W. Blair, vice president and CFO of Nike, and an article on corporate governance — as discussed among participants in the 2005 World Economic Forum in Davos — by management professor Michael Useem.
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