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[A commitment to developing our leaders]
[[Geoff Cubort] The commitment by the company to the development of its employees ]
[is I don't think matched anywhere else.]
[[An innovative approach to training]]
[[Geoff Cubort] Taking 50 senior executives out of their day jobs to study growth opportunities ]
[After these 3 weeks away, rubbing shoulders with such a talented group of people,]
[you come away with a different perspective, with deeper understanding and learnings,]
[and you are improved as a professional.]
[You've got to be here on the ground to really understand what's going on in the country,]
[You can conceptionalize it. You can talk about it in the classroom,]
[but until you actually get down here and get a sense of what is going on,]
[you really can't understand what their needs are.]
[It's not every day you spend 3 weeks in Africa.]
[and we're talking about a continent that has a billion people.]
[We're talking about a continent that has massive infrastructure needs.]
[Just yesterday I met with the prime minister of Kenya.]
[The day before that I met with the CEO of Kenya Airways.]
[I would never have imagined that I would ever be in this situation.]
[but the key is to understand the challenges, and show you are consistent]
[with your overall culture and principles.]
[You look at an infrastructure, water, power, healthcare, transportation,]
[and what Africa needs is what we can offer them.]
[[John Butler] I definitely believe that this is a growth market and an emerging market.]
[Everyone is really working hard to make more out of their life than they've had in the past.]
[That's a good market I think for GE to be in, because if you've got people ]
[who really want to grow, expand, make things better, well, that's what GE is all about.]
[[Clara Copmarc] Leadership for me is to listen to the people. ]
[and not only the people in your team,]
[but the people where you are, understand your costumer,]
[understand the country where you are living.]
[We want to be your partner of the country, ]
[and we want to be part of the solution,]
[of every country where we are.]
[[Sarah Hedger] I think working with different people from different parts of GE, ]
[different nationalities, is actually half of why we're here.]
[If everybody has the same idea, you're never going to make much progress.]
[There's a big difference in perspectives.]
[People bring backgrounds and experience, and that helps us move forward really fast.]
[[Geoff Cuburt] It's absolutely inspiring to be a part of a complex challenge,]
[and it's absolutely inspiring to be part of a global issue.]
[We've gone to places like China and India and Russia and South America,]
[but every place has a slightly different challenge.]
[I think we're learning what those new challenges are,]
[and hopefully we'll come away with some good recommendations]
[that the company will act upon.]
[[Nara Narosimhan] If you want to succeed as an organization, you need to learn]
[You have to be globally-minded.]
[Using my training in the classroom ]
[and translating it into something which I can practice,]
