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The Senior Leader’s Checklist for Shaping Company Culture

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The authors argued that companies had to pick between one of three paths to value creation and success in the market – operational excellence, customer intimacy or product leadership. As with most things in life, it depends on what you’re trying to do. You couldn’t have two or three, you had to pick one.

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Ken Blanchard and Chick-fil-A’s Mark Miller, on What It Takes to Grow as a Leader

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Ken Blanchard is the co-founder and chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, an international management training and consulting firm. ” Mark Miller is vice president of training and development for Chick-fil-A. .

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How to Stop Being “Them” and Start Being “Us”

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A few months ago, I was in conversation with a group of senior director and vice president level leaders in a client company. I had been the vice president of HR at my company for about 18 months when I extended an offer to everyone in the department to join me for a short duration discussion group on a book I really liked.

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What Have We Learned So Far?

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with a group of senior leaders in a client company and asked this question for consideration – “What if we’re still working this way six months from now?” A good portion of the time that they haven’t been spending in planes, trains and automobiles has been going to their life partners, kids and friends.

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Four Things United Got Wrong This Week and One It Got Right

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This demonstrates that as a leader, you have to make sure your non-company partners share your values. They’re the ones who wrestled the passenger out of his seat, bloodied his nose and dragged him up the aisle by his armpits. But, it happened on a United plane so United gets the blame. United is the biggest carrier out of Chicago.

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How to Diversify Your Happiness

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The idea is to not over-invest in one particular company or class of investments but to balance your portfolio across different types of assets. In a month, she’s been trained to provide support to families transitioning out of homelessness who have one or more children on the autism spectrum.

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What a Week for Departures: HP's Hurd, Jet Blue's Slater and.

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Last Friday, Hewlett Packard announced that its CEO, Mark Hurd, had resigned after an internal investigation showed that he had submitted false expense reports related to time that he spent with a female marketing consultant to the company. As the New York Times reported , the consultant first filed sexual harassment charges against Hurd.