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Why the world’s ‘CEO factories’ need retooling

The blue-chip leader mill risks churning out ‘default managers’ who look and act the same as their predecessors.

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Another chief executive rolled off the Unilever production line last week, when Leena Nair was appointed to run luxury goods company Chanel.

Nair, who has worked at Unilever for nearly 30 years, is a product of the group’s leadership development program.

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Andrew Hill is an associate editor and the management editor of the Financial Times. He is a former City editor, financial editor and comment and analysis editor.

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