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Society Needs a Leadership Paradigm Shift

Leading Blog

Making the Necessary Course Correction Although it won’t happen overnight, these key steps will promote the needed paradigm shift to develop positive dimensions of character: 1. For example, all facets of selection, promotion, and rewards must be undertaken through the lens of character. 30, 2023).

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Industry Concentration Is Bad News For Good Jobs

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. “When you have a supply chain that’s dominated by a very powerful firm, or you have entire industries or markets that are dominated by very powerful firms, that makes it more difficult for smaller firms that do business with them to be successful and turn a profit. ” Gauging the market.

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When Good Employees Do Bad: Six Surprising Behaviors that May Precede a Scandal

Leading Blog

For example, if a company claims it welcomes innovation and risk taking, but then only rewards employees who toe the company line and reinforce the status quo, sooner or later people will simply stop asking questions, innovating, and stretching themselves. In fact, it can lead to disaster. Excessive optimism. You know the rest.

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9 Lessons from Henry Ford’s $5 Day Decision

Leading Blog

He simplified the design and construction of the automobile, narrowed the choices available (“any color you want, so long as it’s black”) and marketed it toward what we would today call the “down market.” Ford’s company was in a precarious position. You don’t have to be a corporate CEO to benefit from Ford’s example.

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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. In 2012, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. I also believe companies didn’t learn much from Kodak’s example.

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The Coming of the Clairvoyant Computer

Leading Blog

Will the patient's outcome from surgery be positive? For example, in the mid-1990s, Chase Bank witnessed a nine digit windfall predicting mortgage outcome. This veritable Big Bang delivers a plethora of examples so great in number, only a computer could manage to learn from them. They can make or break your day, year, or life.

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Hackers and Hummingbirds: Leadership Lessons from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Terry Starbucker

Like most things, it can be used for good or bad, but the vast majority of hackers I’ve met tend to be idealistic people who want to have a positive impact on the world. Facebook is one example of such a business. Walter was named among 25 Women Who Rock Social Media in 2012. Facebook knows how valuable the right people are.

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