Employees at This Company Believed It Was Stuck at No. 3 in the Industry, but This Business Leader Showed Them How to Think Bigger Steve Collis, CEO of AmeriSourceBergen, shares how he developed "intellectual confidence" in his company.

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Steve Collis, CEO of AmeriSourceBergen, spoke to Mark Gerson, co-founder and chairman of GLG Group, at a recent event in Philadelphia. In this clip, Collis shares how he developed "intellectual confidence" in his company, breeding an entrepreneurial spirit across the company culture. In 2015, Philadelphia Magazine wrote that Collis was the "CEO providing the best bang for the buck" in the Philadelphia area, based on a comparison of CEO pay to shareholder value conducted by the Wall Street Journal.

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