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Inspirational.

I'd love to hear names of companies today where folks feel their work place culture might allow something like this to happen.

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I work at Nucor and know of several people who have done exactly this in the 20 years I've worked here. They started working in a entry level production position and worked their way up to department manager, division manager/VP, senior VP and even CEO in one case.

I've almost finished reading "Good to Great" (an excellent read, for whoever hasn't read it already) which analyzes Nucor's company culture. Nice to hear the reality matches the analysis.

For some reason, this story reminds me of Hamdi Ulukay and the story behind Chobani from his TED talk: The anti-CEO Playbook: https://www.ted.com/talks/hamdi_ulukaya_the_anti_ceo_playboo...

It gave me respect for a company I wouldn't think twice about. Both cases show solid longterm leadership strategy in a world chasing quarterly growth.

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