Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry : You know, it’s my belief, and it has also been my own experience, that there there is no place that servant-leadership cannot operate. To see that the way they’ve been functioning and operating is not a good way to be in relationship with other people. Have you ever come across an area like that?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. In the 1990s, another international conglomerate purchased Bridgestone-Firestone.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry : You know, it’s my belief, and it has also been my own experience, that there there is no place that servant-leadership cannot operate. To see that the way they’ve been functioning and operating is not a good way to be in relationship with other people. Have you ever come across an area like that?

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. People are envious of the power, status and wealth of company heads. Operational Statistics. people steal $20,000 from coin-operated machines. Formerly sainted icons went down in disgrace. Yet, only 5.1%

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

Over his decade as IBM's leader, he made a number of moves, each instructive, but their power came from their cumulative effect in the transformation of a good company back into a great one. That council of barons was replaced by teams for strategy, technology, and operations whose members included the next generation of operating leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Building and maintaining trust in the traditional, physical workplace is difficult enough, but the process is even tougher in a virtual environment, where people often have to work with people they haven't met in person. So people initially operate in a positive atmosphere of " swift trust." area during the sniper attacks in 2002.

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How To Environment Storytelling Bond 9

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

There is a real elitist attitude that pervades the industry which tends to be process oriented rather than client oriented. It’s not about the process, it’s about results. Coaching isn’t about esoteric definitions, scripted questions or canned processes. In my opinion this is a huge mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Similarly, researchers at the OECD have found that markups — a measure of companies’ profits and market power — have increased more in digitally-intensive industries. By now, the core functions of IT—data storage, data processing, and data transport—have become available and affordable to all.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Similar to the advance of “standardized process” in the early 20th century, digital is not just the new product to offer our customers (e.g., employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Corporate arrogance and ego, based upon power and influence (as well as money). Executives never stayed long.

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