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Trust in Business Leadership

Coaching Tip

The 2008 global financial crisis, a series of corporate scandals that have eroded organizational trust, including Volkswagen, BP and Enron, and an emphasis on transparency brought about by the combined impact of globalization, technology, and demographic changes have all combined to bring trust in business to what may be an all-time low.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Founded in the 1930s, Lego developed a repeatable model that allowed it to grow for decades.

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How to Manage Multiple Partnerships

Harvard Business Review

Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. The long-standing exclusive arrangement between Xerox and Fuji Photo Film in Japan is one example; pharmaceutical licensing across markets is another. Then we learn a lot from the proceedings. It can work, but it's rare.