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Learning, leadership and finding balance Driven by a quest for knowledge and a desire to keep pushing the boundaries, it seems more than a little appropriate that Lynda McGoey, Managing Director, Global Head Trade Finance, GE, has settled in a business that has a very long history of innovation. In fact, as a source of inspiration, they don’t come much better than GE founding father, Thomas Edison.
This issue’s question “Steve Jobs: ‘Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.’ Discuss.” Royston Da Costa Assistant Group Treasurer Ferguson Group Services Limited One of the most powerful forces at play in today’s world is innovation. It is in the journeys that companies and industries undergo; transforming themselves to be able to survive, compete, and stay at the top of their game, where we witness the power of this force.
Photo of Lynda McGoey, General Electric and Julian Dandridge, PwC. GE’s innovative way of easing transferral of its trade finance portfolio to multiple buyers during divestment The challenge As part of the strategy to engage in US$20bn of dispositions and refocus on its core offerings, General Electric’s (GE) corporate treasury team had to identify a repeatable process for efficiently reducing the company’s off-balance sheet financial exposure.
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