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SERVANT Leaders are Resolute – Acronym Model

Modern Servant Leader

These include the following from Spears and others 1 , Frick & Sipe 2 as well as Russell & Stone (2002) 3. For instance, he had to persistently resist the suggestions that restructuring the union agreements was not possible, or that Ford should take the money offered by the Federal government. Persuasion (Spears).

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Customer-Centric Org Charts Aren’t Right for Every Company

Harvard Business Review

firms with structures organized around customers would grow from 32% to 52% as firms raced to build customer-centric organizations, and he interviewed companies including IBM and Systems Group that had announced customer-centric restructurings. Its 2002 restructuring offered little incremental benefit while adding cost and complexity.

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GM’s Stock Buyback Is Bad for America and the Company

Harvard Business Review

While the restructuring certainly helped GM return to profitability (its annual net income averaged $6.7 billion worth of buybacks from 1986 through 2002. But this “Barra bonus” totals only $115 million, a pittance compared with the $5 billion that GM will spend on the buyback.). GM did $20.4

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Stop Fighting Your Culture

Harvard Business Review

Instead, right from the start, he, along with Ron Williams (who joined Aetna in 2001 and became its president in 2002), took time to visit the troops, understand their perspective, and involve them in the planning. That was an appealing proposition but would require significant restructuring; no one's job was guaranteed.

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These Employment Laws Work to Safeguard Pay Equity for All

HR Digest

While stable sounds like a positive word, their research implies that the pay inequality between men and women is similar to the numbers from 2002, with women earning 82 percent of what their male counterparts earn. Pew Research Center found that the gender pay gap has remained stable for more than 20 years.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for. More radically, they could agree to restructure global economic institutions or change the agenda of existing institutions.

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

If the Chinese government sticks to its decision to stop funding unprofitable solar-panel manufacturers and support a revamping of the industry, more bankruptcies and restructurings are sure to follow. Similarly, $33 billion in subsidies from 2002 to 2009 helped China triple paper production and overtake the U.S. and European steel.

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