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Old Sep 16, 2008 | 4:35 pm
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Originally Posted by kr3m
A bit OT but, the CEO of IKEA Sweden has no education, and started by working as a cashier at IKEA and then worked her way up. Isn't that pretty unusual, in a big company like this?
Generally, yes. I do know though that the previous SVP of UPS in charge of their USA operations (the majority of their business) started with them as a part time truck loader...

UPS historically has promoted much of their management from the ranks of their delivery drivers.

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