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Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders

Strategy Driven

When it’s time to hire for critical positions within your company, consider the training and certification in military systems offered to service men and women. Businesses with a commitment to hiring former service men and women are attending career fairs dedicated to veterans and building talent communities for veteran candidates.

Agility 50
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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

They struggle to see how their labor contributes directly to the performance of the corporation, or how it helps the progress of their career. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic. Henrik Bunge is one such leader.

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It's Your Country.Lead It!

Coaching Tip

For our children's future, America needs to get better by reengineering our shared values and implementing a united ethical purpose. a year between 2001 and 2007 and plunged by 26.2% In this presidential and congressional election year, we must all begin to take action on our stake in this country's future. in the following two years.

Class 110
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Women in Power: Leadership Differences By Gender

Women on Business

A few of the most important and valuable leadership traits are: honesty, intelligence, work ethic, decisiveness, ambition, compassion, and creativeness. Some of the respondents also mention women’s family responsibilities and their shortage of experience as detriments to a successful career. 2001, December). LiA, 25, 14.

Power 263
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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

Between 1994 when he was first elected and 2001, in his third term, the Firm more than doubled its number of consultants (3,300 to 7,700), partners (425 to 891), and annual revenues ($1.5 Among McKinsey's biggest clients in the 1990s were pharmaceuticals and financial-services companies. billion to $3.4 The desire to be an insider.

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Creating a Culture of Unconditional Love

Harvard Business Review

But we all know what happened in 2001. There were companies with losses larger than their sales, and one month the number of new cars sold in the country was lower than the number of cars stolen! More important, he would never, ever, hire anyone who was not dying to work in a highly professional, ethical, collaborative firm.

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Nabob and the Coffee Kerfuffle: How the 120-year-old brand managed to maintain its challenger status.

In the CEO Afterlife

And everyone is trying to climb to the top of that to get ahead,” explains Heather Fadali, senior brand manager for coffee at Kraft Heinz, Nabob’s parent company. But when the company was purchased [in 1976 by Jacobs], we were in a free world of competition, and then suddenly we didn’t have the support of Kelly Douglas any more.

Brand 100