How They Rose
Leadership journeys, told forwards

See how today’s leaders really got there.

Career journeys of chief executives and senior leaders, with the doubts, detours and defining decisions left in, and lessons you can use in your own career.

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Choose a leader. Each stop on the line is a chapter of their story.

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Profiles built from public records and the leaders’ own words

Advice about becoming a chief executive is plentiful; evidence is scarcer. This article reviews the best-known studies of how people reach the top job and how long they stay there, from the CEO Genome Project to the latest…

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  • At a glance
  • Early life, in his own words
  • Career timeline
  • Taking over from J.R.D. Tata

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