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Do We Care About Leadership?

Jeff For Banks

On a recent plane ride I sat next to the Commander of the NCO Academy at Fort Jackson, South Carolina (see picture from one of last year''s classes). He is a reservist, and had interesting perspectives on how the military operates versus private industry. In his "real life", he is a sales manager for a pharmaceutical company.

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Top 5 Total Return to Shareholders: #4 Bank of the Ozarks

Jeff For Banks

What is interesting about the success of Bank of the Ozarks and its CEO is the fact that he wasn''t the "experienced banker" regulators almost insist upon when approving the appointment of bank leadership. Bank of the Ozarks and their regulators were not so myopic in their view. How did they grow so quickly?