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Learning from the Business

Maverick
Before you are a leader, success is
all about growing yourself. When
you become a leader, success is all
about growing others Jack Welch
The Leader
A company is only as valuable as the people
running it Jack Welch
Leadership is not a popularity contest; youve
already won the election
Make tough calls
Upgrade your team
Instill positive energy; no one wants a black
cloud
Establish trust by candidness, transparency
and credit
The Leader
Picking the Best Team
The Team with the best player wins
Jack Welch
HR most important department
Hire the most generous leader
Pick the best player and develop the best
team
4Es Energy, ability to Energize, ability to
Execute and have an Edge
Money, recognition and training - retention

Picking the Best Team
Vision and Culture
You have to have vision because you need
to rally people around a cause - Jack Welch
Have a clear, distinct vision
Repeatedly communicate vision to instill the
essence of the vision
Establish a culture of openness and
transparency
Be candid about your mistakes
Dishonesty is a career-killer
Vision and Culture
Crisis Management
Overemphasize the problem
Assume everyone, even your family, will
know about it
Assume your handling will be portrayed in
the worst possible manner
Assume there will be changes in
processes and people
Believe the organization will emerge
stronger
Crisis Management
Strategy
What is the current situation
What are our competitors up to
What are we up to
What can out competitors do to annihilate us
What can we do to annihilate our competitor

Strategy
A strategy is something you
can touch; you can
motivatepeople withyou
can energize people around
the message
Managerial Category
Little is worse than a manager who cant
cut bait Jack Welch
Best 20% rewarded with stock options
Middle 70% were told what to do to
improve
Bottom 10% were usually laid off
Constantly appraise so every employee
knows where he/she stands
No one is surprised when its time to let go
Knowing When to Let Go
It's time for an expert; whatever
makes you happy; Credit Suisse.
360 Finance

Credit Suisse at a Glimpse.
Currently Credit Suisse Group
is a Switzerland-based
multinational financial services
holding company, which has its
headquarter in Zrich,
Switzerland
The company is organized as a
stock corporation having four
divisions which include
Investment Banking, Private
Banking, Asset Management,
and a Shared Services Group
Has total assets of $960.58
billion and a total equity
valued at nearly $46.4 billion
Current Employees almost
46,000

Credit Suisse at a Glimpse
History
Founded by Alfred Escher in
1856
Started by issuing loans that
helped create Switzerland's
electrical grid and the
European rail system.
In the 1900s Credit Suisse
began shifting to retail
banking in response to the
elevation of the middle-class
and the growing popularity
of savings accounts.

History
Organizational Structure
Mostly a flat structured.
The organization believes in empowering
its workers.

The chain on command is as follows
Chairman-CEO-{CFO , General Council,
CRO , Marketing and Talent Officers}

Organizational Structure
Chairman
CEO
CFO
Financial
Analyst
General
Council
Legal Support
CRO
Risk Analyst
Market and
Talent
Manager
HR
Organizational Structure
SWOT Analysis SWOT Analysis
Achievements
Credit Suisse is a member of Wall Street's Bulge
Bracket, a list of less than a dozen of the largest
and most profitable banks
Recognized as the world's best private bank by
Euromoney's Global Private Banking Survey
The Securities Data Company ranked Credit
Suisse as the fourth best place for financial advice
for mergers and acquisitions
Credit Suisse has been recognized by the Asset
Triple A Awards
In 2005 Credit Suisse was ranked as the second
best prime broker by Institutional Investor

Achievements
Price is what you pay. Value
is what you get
Warren Buffett

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