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An Interview with Larry Spears, a Servant-Leadership Legend

Modern Servant Leader

I think the work that Duane Trammell and Ann McGee-Cooper and their associates have been doing with companies like Southwest Airlines and TDIndustries are stellar examples of what can be done within organizations once they make a commitment to servant-leadership. And in 2010, the servant-leadership scholar position was started.

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An Interview with Larry Spears, a Servant-Leadership Legend

Modern Servant Leader

I think the work that Duane Trammell and Ann McGee-Cooper and their associates have been doing with companies like Southwest Airlines and TDIndustries are stellar examples of what can be done within organizations once they make a commitment to servant-leadership. And in 2010, the servant-leadership scholar position was started.

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Culture Trumps Strategy, Every Time

Harvard Business Review

Many other experts, such as Senge and Kotter have certainly added to that understanding with complex and nuanced constructs, but Caldwell's invisible glue comment holds a truth. Culture is the set of habits that allows a group of people to cooperate by assumption rather than by negotiation. Follow her on Twitter @nilofer.