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Disconnection at the Heart of Corporate Failure

Great Leadership By Dan

It brings executive leaders to a quiet place where they can see the value of stopping, looking, listening and feeling, allowing intuition to enter decisions, using connection to drive operations, welcoming the change that becomes or evolves, in line with a whole new menu of rewards that corporations of the future will embrace.

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Before You Open a Business…

Leading Blog

But Chrysler was in bankruptcy, and we didn’t know whether our Chrysler Jeep Dodge dealership that we opened in 2004 would survive the ax of the bankruptcy court. Operating a small business is not unlike owning a really old house: things break a lot, and you need to fix them, over and over and over. Ours did; over 700 did not.)

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What Connects Coca-Cola, Lego, In-N-Out, Intuit, and Nike? Focus.

In the CEO Afterlife

By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines. A new management team pruned several of the acquisitions, stopped ‘doing more and more,’ and started ‘doing less better’ by giving their full attention to their core business, LEGO blocks. This vision establishes the principles for running a simple operation.

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Craft a Remarkable Personal Brand Statement! 29 Steps & Examples

Miles Anthony Smith

When you have a team looking up to you for guidance and instruction, it’s important to remain consistent in the way you lead. But even if you don’t have a team of direct reports, we are all leaders who come from different walks of life with varied experiences that shape our core values. I work as a part of the team.

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When Success is Born Out of Serendipity

Harvard Business Review

What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? By the end of the '80s, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer had realized, through rigorous analysis, that Microsoft needed to abandon its still-struggling new operation system, Windows, because of a memory flaw.