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Edgell's new CEO confident he'll fit in. (Edgell Communications Inc., Richard Swank)
Crain's Cleveland Business, April, 1990 by Myers, Ken
Edgell's new CEO confident he'll fit in It might be easy to assume that Richard Swank will have a tough time in his new job as chief executive officer of Edgell Communications Inc. After all, he's an outsider coming in to a company with a closely knit group of longtime managers and lots of debt.
But Mr. Swank, who most recently has been a business consultant in Connecticut and is a former executive vice president of Dun & Bradstreet Corp., said he isn't worried. "I have worked at organizations where I was `the outsider' at other times in my career," he said. "I have found that generally, if you are honest and straightforward and work with people to establish achievable goals, it doesn't make any difference if you're from the inside or outside. "We're all...
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