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The Connection Between Employee Trust and Financial Performance

Harvard Business Review

This was the headquarters of Campbell Soup Company when one of us, Doug Conant, took the reins as CEO in 2001. Was this a deliberate attempt to imprison employees and stifle their energy? Inside — drab colors, peeling paint, and dead plants decaying in the common areas. Was this a prison? How to Develop the Trust-Building Skill.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 3 of 4

Strategy Driven

Effective Crisis Handling, Case Studies. Having done so put the city in the position of responding to the unthinkable on September 11, 2001. Devaluation of the Mexican peso and slumps in energy and ranching economies had taken tolls on a city whose population was losing faith. There is an art to Crisis Preparedness.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

The company cried ‘case study’ from the very beginning, when it segued from the former Houston Natural Gas moniker. Yet, when the company shifted from being an energy supplier to the hucksterish energy trader, the charitable activities were dispensed with. Executives never stayed long. The News Media.