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Aim Higher: Servant Leaders are Humble

Skip Prichard

In fact, when leaders aren’t humble – when they’re arrogant or proud – they shut down the traits that make for the strongest teams: creativity, good worth ethic, entrepreneurship, selflessness. A manager taking my emotional state into account during a time of crisis. A leader has the long-term vision. Jennifer Collins.

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The Big Picture of Business – Tribute to Dick Clark

Strategy Driven

Trusting your gut comes from long experience, for which there are no shortcuts. Long-term business success is a function of developing stakeholders and empowering them to do positive things with your company. Be ethical. She can dance all night long.” ” Judy Collins (1968). Learn as you grow.

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Be Your Own Talent Scout

Harvard Business Review

But equally important is character, by which I mean solid ethics and especially the ability to inspire trust. Finding people with the right combination of competence, character and team skills isn't easy, of course, even if you conduct a long, carefully-orchestrated search. By "talent," I mean three things.

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To Give Your Employees Meaning, Start With Mission

Harvard Business Review

Jim Collins. Managers in such companies seem to think that paying people is reason enough for them to perform at their best. The Company's primary objective is to maximize long-term stockholder value, while adhering to the laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates and at all times observing the highest ethical standards.

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Has SAS's Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code On Corporate Culture?

Michael Lee Stallard

Today, SAS is on a roll having achieved an enviable long-term record of revenue and profit growth. Harvard Business School named Goodnight as one of the “20th Century’s Great American Business Leaders.” During the Leadercast program and prior to my meeting with Goodnight, author Jim Collins interviewed him on stage.

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