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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. And just to make things interesting, do it in a decentralized organizational construct where laws, standards, and procedures aren’t as tightly controllable as within a single company.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

In the previous three parts of this series, we realized the challenging factors around searching for and placing an ideal candidate to lead a private equity portfolio company. A simple illustration perhaps is a CEO of a large injection molding firm, who might be well suited to a brewing and bottling company.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Ideals and Compromise

N2Growth Blog

portfolio company executives , diving into hiring assessment essentials in terms of hard skills to lead a portfolio company and run the business. Adding a new CxO might create temporary instability in a firm that has relied on generations of insiders or in the case of a more recent startup, a mercurial leader to harness the company.

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Why Your Company Can’t Survive Without an AI Ethics Committee

Lead from Within

Artificial intelligence has transformed industries, improved efficiency, and provided innovative solutions, but it also brings along a set of ethical challenges that your company can’t survive without addressing. The sheer scale at which AI operates means that when issues do arise, their repercussions can be extensive.

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How to Use the Latest Methods to Benefit All Stakeholders of The Company

Joseph Lalonde

It will also provide examples of businesses that have successfully implemented these strategies. 1) Invest in Employees: Investing in an employee is one of the most effective ways to benefit all company stakeholders. It also helps to retain top talent that otherwise would have moved on to other companies. Thanks for reading.

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Servant-Leadership 101: Thorough Lesson (Erin Brockovich Movie Example)

Modern Servant Leader

This 6-minute lesson demonstrates the Thorough principle, through the example of Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts). Erin Brockovich was an unemployed, single mother of 3 children, who, in 1993, discovered that Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) was lying to residents and employees while poisoning their drinking water.

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The Importance Of Leading By Example

The Horizons Tracker

The very act of leadership is one whereby leaders are expected to lead by example, but nonetheless, it’s rare for leaders to actually show how things should be done to their teams. The company also usually promoted from within, so most managers had direct experience on the shop floor before their managerial post.

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