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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Knowledge Is Power. Data Isn’t.

In the CEO Afterlife

Moving on your instincts is not seat-of-the-pants leadership. When I was a CMO and CEO, I operated with an entrepreneurial mindset that required taking decisions as early as possible. Not everyone or every organization can, or should operate this way. Less is better, strategically and managerially. Entrepreneurial Mindset Power.

Power 100
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Why I cringe when people say “hire for fit”

Surviving Leadership

Whether or not you personally like Southwest Airlines (and I love them, so there), you can’t argue with their success in a tough industry. And they attribute it to their “culture” – from how they operate, to how they hire, to how they make, spend, and save money. ” There are bigger issues at stake.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

airline companies have pointed fingers at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as the biggest cause of outages, even as the FAA has fired back at airlines. The biggest challenge for companies when it comes to operational excellence is siloed behavior. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc.

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You Can’t Engage Employees by Copying How Other Companies Do It

Harvard Business Review

He or she must believe in and articulate a “higher ambition,” as we call it at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership. It must be lived by top management as exemplified in their behavior and in the design of their management and human resource policies and practices. First, it must start with the CEO.

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Competing on Service: Eleven Ways to Beat the Competition by ‘Hugging’ Your Customers

Strategy Driven

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.