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WestJet's CEO step down: The first sign of the leadership.

Roundtable Talk

Durfy’s replacement, Gregg Sartesky, is a 50 something exec who’s grown up in the high grind airline industry. The “personal issues&# reason is a much more slippery one and has me wondering if we are seeing what happens when a GenX mindset leader steps into an organization with a value-set grounded in boomer mentality.

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Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 1 of 4

Strategy Driven

Business development. It’s not enough just to handle a crisis effectively. The follow-through and crisis preparedness planning process helps to divert other crises from transpiring. Recommendations for crisis management and preparedness as part of macro planning are offered. Running the business.

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Taking Charge: When Not to Delegate | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

Share this: 9 Comments Filed under Leadership Values , Leading Change , motivating & Inspiring Tagged as courage , crisis managment , delegation , managment , Maple Leaf Foods. A crisis comes to mind as another example of when not to delegate. There are no doubt countless others. What comes to mind for you?

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 3 of 4

Strategy Driven

Business development. The same planning process that nurtures Crisis Preparedness can and must also accommodate for Crisis Management. This is regarded as a premiere textbook case of quality crisis management. This industrial development program carried the theme, “You Can Believe/Puede Creer.”

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The Big Picture of Business – What Business Must Learn: Putting.

Strategy Driven

The Business Treeâ„¢ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Damage control, crisis management mode.

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To Fight Ebola, Stop Pointing Fingers

Harvard Business Review

The burgeoning Ebola crisis hit home for Americans the other week with the death of a Liberian man in Dallas. These developments unraveled the projected confidence of leading physicians and officials of the Center for Disease Control that the disease was a low-risk threat to our country with its advanced medical systems.

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