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Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO of
General Electric Co., is an engaging speaker. Dressed in standard
business attire but for a jacket—light blue shirt, blue tie
and dark pants—his presentation was highly anticipated at
the African American Forum’s Global Diversity Symposium XII
weekend in Washington, D.C., in August. “The company . . .
is in solid shape for the future,” he tells the audience.
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When Cynara Robinson landed a job
at Discovery Communications Inc., a Fortune 500 company, she relished
her good fortune for two reasons. The job was an ideal progression
from her previous experience at a film and video post-production
company and the possibility of stepping into roles of increased
responsibility seemed imminent. “Discovery had such a good
reputation. I was open to the great opportunity. . .
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The key point I wanted to start off
with is I think it’s time for everybody in this room who’s
running a company to think of technology a bit differently. There
are changes that we see happening in three or four years, and we’re
all going to have to prepare for them. Technology is going to be
an important part of it. No. 1, there are demands for transparency
in terms of how we do business, how we make decisions. . .
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