小約翰?R.斯特安菲德

????公司：保德信金融集團(tuán)

????《財(cái)富》500強(qiáng)排名：29

????斯特安菲德于2008年成為公司CEO。三十年前，他加入保德信金融集團(tuán)，成為一名投資分析師。雖然他對(duì)于自己在這家金融巨頭35年的工作經(jīng)歷引以為豪，但他對(duì)員工們可不會(huì)這么說(shuō)：“我不希望在職業(yè)發(fā)展期被聘用的員工認(rèn)為，職業(yè)初期加入公司的那些人比他們更受重視。”他補(bǔ)充道，那些成功的公司，包括保德信金融集團(tuán)在內(nèi)，都是既有內(nèi)部培養(yǎng)的人才，也有外部聘用的精英。他表示，自己之所以一直在保德信工作純屬偶然，并非有意為之：“我評(píng)估自己職業(yè)的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)一直都是：我喜歡自己正在做的事情嗎？我是否能從中學(xué)到什么？我喜歡、尊重我的同事嗎？我已經(jīng)在一家公司內(nèi)從事了一系列不同的職業(yè)。而且，我發(fā)現(xiàn)在一個(gè)領(lǐng)域取得成功可以讓你有信心去嘗試其他領(lǐng)域。”

John R. Strangfeld, Jr.

????Company: Prudential Financial

????Fortune 500 rank: 29

????Strangfeld became CEO in 2008, three decades after he began his career with Prudential as an investment analyst. While he's proud of his 35 years with the financial giant, it's not a fact he touts to staff: "I don't want mid-career hires to think they are somehow less valued than those who join us earlier in their careers," he says, adding that successful companies—Prudential included— tend to have a mix of internally developed and externally hired talent. He says he became a lifer by accident rather than design: "Evaluating my career, my criteria have always been: Do I like what I am doing? Am I learning? Do I like and respect my colleagues? I feel I have had a series of careers under the umbrella of a single company. And, I find that success in one area can give you the confidence to try another."