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Like the jeans and sandals she often wears to work, Potter's casual demeanor can be deceiving. Says Noel Tichy, a University of Michigan business professor who profiled Potter (along with CEOs like GE's Jack Welch) for his book, The Cycle of Leadership: "I've watched her with her people, and she puts them out of their comfort zone. She's not an easy person to work for if you don't want to be pushed." Yet "she never misses an opportunity to give the credit to someone else," says Claudia Estrin, a colleague of Potter's since...
...toughest moments of her career, and Dee Mellor was about to relive it one recent afternoon, this time in front of an audience--a group of rising stars at General Electric. Mellor, 45, runs the global supply-chain operations for GE's huge Medical Systems unit, and last year she had to decide where to move the manufacturing of a crucial component for the C.T. scanners used in hospitals. In India, she explained, GE had a proven team and facility and could reap an immediate return. China would require more investment, but it offered access to a pool...
This is the kind of logistical puzzle that gets Mellor up at 4:30 every morning and ready by 6 for conference calls with GE Medical sites in France, Israel and Japan. Trained as an engineer, Mellor has spent nearly all of her career in manufacturing operations. "I like to see how things are made," she says simply. For GE, her skills are critical. CEO Jeff Immelt came to his position from GE Medical and has singled out the division--with $9.2 billion in sales this year--as a key source of growth. On-time, on-spec, on-budget delivery...
...joined GE in 1978 and soon went to the Aircraft Engines division. It was a great fit. Her father was a navigator, and one of her brothers is a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force. She credits her parents with encouraging her love of math and science. Growing up with a sister and three brothers in Worcester, Mass., also prepared her for GE's famously intense managers. "My brothers would push me hard, Mellor says. "I had to hold...
Among the firms Root surveyed, the usual U.S. suspects--such as Dell Computer, GE, Pfizer, Microsoft and Wal-Mart--beat the index and passed all his tests. But so did some less predictable, smaller multinationals such as footwear and apparel maker Timberland and home builder KB Home. Says Root: "Profitable foreign growers come from all walks of life...