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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

If you look at some of the companies with the strongest results and the best reputations, you’ll find that servant leadership is at the heart of them. The world’s largest online shoe retailer went from 8 million $ to 1 billion $ annual revenue in 7 years. America’s largest airline and the most profitable – the airline that love built.

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

If you look at some of the companies with the strongest results and the best reputations, you’ll find that servant leadership is at the heart of them. The world’s largest online shoe retailer went from 8 million $ to 1 billion $ annual revenue in 7 years. America’s largest airline and the most profitable – the airline that love built.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

There’s even a story that Reed Hastings wanted a meeting with the people at Blockbuster to essentially give them the technology, saying let us handle your DVDs by mail and your future streaming business; you focus on the retail store. We observed this and saw lots of companies, lots of different industries doing it right and doing it wrong.

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How Company Culture Shapes Employee Motivation

Harvard Business Review

In a recent strategy meeting we attended with the leaders of a Fortune-500 company, the word “culture” came up 27 times in 90 minutes. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. Take for example the airline industry. We saw this play out in retail, banking, telecommunications, and the fast food industry as well.

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Your Company's "Obituary" Can Shape Its Future

Harvard Business Review

If you've spent any amount of time in executive retreats or leadership off-sites, you've probably been asked to participate in a familiar evaluation of your career and impact. What legacy did your company leave in its industry? What contributions did your business unit make to your company? Why might a company be missed?

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Why Isn’t Jamie Dimon Telling Clients to Raise Wages Too?

Harvard Business Review

After all, investment analysts at JPMorgan Chase are assigned to monitor specific industries, speak up in companies’ quarterly conference calls, help execute deals and transactions, and advise corporate clients. Only the latter strategy produces good results for both company shareholders and employees.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. and other governments to help them design these often complicated auctions and by telecommunications companies trying to figure out the best strategies for bidding. Here a few notable examples.