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Article: The Driver Behind Dana.
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- Chief Executive (U.S.)
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Now here's a first step up the corporate ladder few career counselors would advise: turn down the company's job offer, not once but twice.
That's precisely how Joe Magliochetti began his climb to the CEO suite at Dana Corporation three decades ago, first scouted (for a position he ended up declining) while a fresh-from-college management trainee at Victor Manufacturing.
A year later, his flirtation with the venerable auto-industry supplier--ranked fifth among North American original equipment parts suppliers and ninth globally, according to Automotive News--repeated itself, though this time his polite "no thanks" wouldn't stick. Before he could exit the ...