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Southwest Airlines 2011 Results Reflect Benefits of Servant Leadership

Modern Servant Leader

The company has been a role model of servant leadership since its founding by Herb Kelleher (and others). Jordan reflected the company’s commitment to servant leadership. During mergers and acquisitions it is common for companies, especially the acquired, to experience a dip in operational performance.

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Research Shows That Investing In Tech Matters

The Horizons Tracker

Efficiently managing the money a company needs to run its daily operations, known as working capital, is crucial for success. This connection between good working capital management and how well a company does can be complicated. The research looked at 1,054 American manufacturing companies from 2011 to 2013.

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My Best Blogs of 2011

In the CEO Afterlife

So, with the help of WordPress analytics and content judgment, here’s my list of the top ’CEO Afterlife’ blogs of 2011. There has to be a break from day-to-day operations in the process. In this blog, I am not arguing against a clear definition of where a company is going and what sets it apart.

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The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do

Lead Change Blog

In the years since The Secret originally appeared on bookstore shelves, over 500 thousand copies have been sold to leaders and learners around the world, and several additional books have been published in this leadership series, including The Secret of Teams (2011), Great Leaders GROW (2012), and The Heart of Leadership (2013).

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2020 Hindsight: Learning for Tomorrow

Lead Change Blog

Identify what has become clear about your business and the way you operate this year. What parts of your operating model worked well during the heights of disruption and which showed the biggest gaps or development opportunities? How do these observations inform your 2021 business plan?

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MFG of South Dakota: Trying To Do Some Good in the World

N2Growth Blog

MFG of South Dakota is a subsidiary of the Molded Fiber Glass Companies (MFG), a leader in the field of reinforced plastics and composites, serving diverse markets with a variety of composite material systems and processes. The company was to close by February 15, 2018. In fact, that’s only the beginning of the story.

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Succession Planning: Not Just for Older Leaders

N2Growth Blog

In the most recent turn of events, Blackstone Group withdrew its bid for the company after making the determination that Dell’s future and the PC industry looks bleak. Throughout all this I cannot help but ask what seems to be a fundamental underlying question about this company, and that is, who should lead Dell going forward?

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