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charisma but for extreme humility
coupled with intense professional will.
In his influential book Good to Great,
Collins tells the story of Darwin Smith,
who in his twenty years as head of
Kimberly-Clark turned it into the leading
paper company in the world and
generated stock returns more than four
times higher than the market average.
Smith was a shy and mild-mannered
man who wore J.C. Penney suits and
nerdy black-rimmed glasses, and spent
his vacations puttering around his Wisconsin
farm by himself. Asked by a
Wall Street Journal reporter to describe
his management style, Smith stared
back for an uncomfortably long time
and answered with a single word: “Eccentric.”
But his soft demeanor concealed
a fierce resolve. Soon after being
appointed CEO, Smith made a dramatic
decision to sell the mills that produced
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