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Servant Leaders Outperform Because They Connect

Michael Lee Stallard

When Admiral Clark became the chief, first term re-enlistment didn’t meet the Navy’s goal of 38 percent. Within a matter of hours following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, aircraft carriers, Aegis destroyers, and cruisers were in position to protect America’s shores. Navy from 2000 until 2005. why is everyone smiling?

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The Problem with Rewarding Individual Performers

Harvard Business Review

In 1968, The Ohio State Buckeyes football team started one of the most cherished traditions in American sports. But by 2001, the once-dominant Buckeyes had slipped into mediocrity. This is why sports fans can show up to a stadium and immediately share common purpose with 100,000 complete strangers.

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Consumer Warning Labels Aren’t Working

Harvard Business Review

We’d have to live without medicinal drugs, challenging sports, sugary foods, and useful tools. In 2001 the U.S. Going forward, we must remember that in our time of revolutionary technological progress, almost any innovation brings minor risks along with its benefits. A few innovations impose major risks, or even worse.

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Six Principles for Developing Humility as a Leader

Harvard Business Review

Whether we''re looking at business or politics, sports or entertainment, it''s clear we live in an era of self-celebration. Jim Collins had a lot to say about CEOs he saw demonstrating modesty and leading quietly, not charismatically , in his 2001 bestseller Good to Great. Executive search firms and hiring committees beware.).