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Marshall, Not McChrystal, Should Be Role Model for Military Leaders

Michael Lee Stallard

Marshall created a culture that stands in stark contrast to the culture created by General McChrystal as reported in a Rolling Stone magazine article entitled “ The Runaway General.&# A little over a year later, FDR made Marshall the army chief of staff reporting directly to him.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

I was also invited to attend to the Deming Institute Annual Fall conference in Los Angeles. In 2014, as in previous years, the dominant reason for discontinuation of a venture in Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania was that the business was not profitable, as per the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2014 Global report.

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Saying Good Bye To Great Women

Women's Leadership Exchange

We have lost many great women in 2005. As I thought about Rona on New Year's Eve day, I began to think about all the other women that we lost in 2005. Dale (Dalia) Messick - cartoonist and creator of the "Brenda Starr" comic strip about a daring newspaper reporter in the 50's and 60's. Thank you, Dale.

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What Employers Can Do to Accelerate Health Care Reform

Harvard Business Review

To move from a reactive posture to a proactive leadership position in driving health care reform, large employers have a lever at their fingertips that they have not often deployed in procuring health care: their purchasing power. Performance on quality measures should be transparent and publicly reported. Insight Center.

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Breaking Through the Bamboo Ceiling

Harvard Business Review

Yet the impressive credentials and achievements that have caused them to be dubbed "the model minority" aren't reflected in senior-most leadership positions. Among the 3,000 Asian men and women surveyed by the CWLP, 25% feel they face bias in the workplace; a 2005 Gallup survey put the figure at an even higher 31%.

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The Audacity of Professionalism: Lessons from the Jet Blue Incident

Terry Starbucker

No press conferences. Having been a customer service trainer for many years I know that customers can be difficult to deal with, and are much more likely to complain about or report bad service than they are to acknowledge excellent service. But usually, that’s as far as it goes. No viral Facebook campaigns.

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7 Ways To Lead Without Uttering A Single Word

Terry Starbucker

(On a side note, this week , on October 5 and 6, I’ll be attending the World Business Forum In NYC as one of a great group of folks live-blogging the event – check out my blog later this week for my reports, and you can also monitor our real-time postings on Twitter by following the hashtag “ #wbf10 “ Thanks!)

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