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Human potential | Nestlé's Global Head of Talent, Markus Graf, on why the company is backing in-person leadership development

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Markus Graf joined Nestlé seven months ago and now sits with the responsibility of shaping the manufacturing giant’s talent strategy for the 188 countries in which it operates.

Moving from the pharmaceutical industry, where, as he puts it, there are "much stronger and more consistent ways of operating," he says the key to driving the ‘entrepreneurial context’ behind Nestle’s operating model lay in taking a step back.

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