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As CEO of Snap-on, Nicholas Pinchuk (MBA ’76) heads a company that’s all about precise fits for its tools. But he himself is no standard-issue corporate chieftain. A longtime former resident of Asia, he’s also a Vietnam veteran, a rarity among big-company CEOs, only 8 percent of whom have served in the military, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (December 5, 2010) reported. Furthermore, the paper said, Pinchuk “quotes ancient Indian epic poetry, and is so dedicated to fitness that he bench-presses luggage in his hotel room if he can’t get to a gym while traveling.”
Pinchuk, who joined Snap-on in 2002 from Carrier Corp., told the Journal Sentinel that while China will eventually be a big market for his auto-repair tools, right now the Chinese automotive fleet is too new for the “repair cycle.” On leadership, he compared arguing the validity of one’s ideas in an HBS classroom to winning the allegiance of troops in the military: “When you’re a 23- or 24-year-old lieutenant with 350 people reporting to you, many of whom are older, you have to be able to enlist them.”
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