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The World’s Top 50 Leadership and Management Thinkers

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Just today, Thinkers50 announced their shortlist for the 2013 awards. Those recognized previously have included Peter Drucker, Michael Porter, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Tom Peters, Richard Branson, Clayton Christensen and other esteemed thinkers. Leadership Mike Myatt mike myatt thinkers top 50 thinkers 50 top leadership thinkers'

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How Employee Engagement Drives Customer Satisfaction

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The Demand Metric 2013 Employee Engagement Survey concluded that organizations that have more than 50% employee engagement retain more than 80% of their customers. A clear business case for leaders to focus on building engaged teams across the business.

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Succession Planning: Not Just for Older Leaders

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billion as of March 2013 (per Forbes Magazine.) 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? Yes, Michael Dell is an icon of the stature of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

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Why Your CEO Just Doesn’t Get It

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Even more revealing is that the value placed on integrity, trustworthiness and transparency by respondent CEOs went down when compared to the 2013 survey results. How does it make you feel knowing that many sitting CEOs don’t place much value on integrity, on being trustworthy and open, or on team building? Not very inspiring is it?

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The Boy Scouts of America Have Lost Their Way

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Vicki Marble (R), a pointed question about a gun bill she co-sponsored and her racially charged comments made about African-Americans in 2013. .” This week, a story broke in the national press that a cub scout in Colorado has been cast out of his den after he asked a state legislator, Sen. So, what happened to being inclusive?

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Target’s Fall Guy: Is Your Board Prepared?

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The primary reason stated was because of the continued fall-out from the 2013 massive data breach. Chair, Executive Search, N2growth. Gregg Steinhafel, former Chairman and CEO of Target Corporation stepped down earlier this month. And massive it was! In case you don’t recall, up to 110 million customer records were compromised.

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Diversity of a Different Persuasion

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In the 2013 PricewaterhouseCoopers Annual Corporate Directors Survey it was reported that the average age of board directors is 68 and mandatory retirement has risen to 72-75. Or, to put it more formally, diversity of demographic cohort.

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