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Clifton Wharton
TIAA-CREF
Leadership
Chapter 6
Bonus Questions
100
The year that he took office at TIAA-CREF.
What is 1987?
100
What the acronym TIAA-CREF stands for.
What is the Teachers Insurance and Annuities Association-College Retirement Equities Fund?
100
What was Clifton Wharton's leadership style?
What is an authoritative/legitimate/referent leader?
100
The number of pages in this chapter.
What is 24 pages?
100
Name the group members for the chapter 6 presentation.
Who are Devon, Stanley, Gabby, Laurisa, Ephraim, Taylor, Kelsey and Andra?
200
What he did to avoid succumbing to the stress of his job.
What is maintaining a sense of humour, and enjoying his work?
200
As of 1987, the date their last new product was introduced.
What is 1952?
200
Name one of Clifton Wharton’s best attributes as a leader.
What is believing that everyone’s opinions were important; “the biggest mistake ‘is to assume that all wisdom is concentrated at the apex.’”?
200
What Peter Drucker called the change in TIAA-CREF.
What is "The Unseen Revolution"?
200
The number of people that died in the fire in Mann Gulch.
What is 15?
300
Name two of the "firsts" he accomplished as an African American
What is first black director of a major life insurance company, first black chairman of a major foundation (the Rockefeller Foundation), first black president of a major university, first black chancellor of a state higher education system, first black CEO to command a Fortune 500 service company?
300
Name 2-3 reasons for customer dissatisfaction before Clifton Wharton started at TIAA-CREF.
What is no input or control, couldn't withdraw funds once they were deposited, no say as to where their funds would be applied, stuck with TIAA-CREF forever?
300
Name three of his best qualities.
What are a strong personality, experience and being a good listener?
300
This famous physicist joined TIAA-CREF in 1933.
Who is Albert Einstein?
300
These are the leaders from chapters 1-6.
Who are Roy Vagelos, Wagner Dodge, Eugene Kranz, Arlene Blum, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and Clifton Wharton?
400
His activity and successes caused this common misconception about Wharton conveyed by a professor at Harvard?
What is more than one Clifton Wharton?
400
TIAA-CREF's asset base by 1997.
What is 200 billion dollars?
400
Fill in the blank: Clifton Wharton believed that “a decision without ____ could be worse than no decision at all”.
What is consultation?
400
The increase in assets that TIAA-CREF experienced during Wharton’s time there.
What is $55 billion to $114 billion?
400
The distance the flies distributing river blindness can travel with a tail wind in one day.
What is 50 miles?