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5 Core Values For The Workplace

Tim Milburn

The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. A courageous top manager in this firm, Bob Hemphill — who is a leader, no doubt about it — decided to declare war on “they.”

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Leadership Tip: Inconsistancy Can Lead to Distrust

CO2

Consistency in others is demonstrated by a strong track record of success and acting in a predictable fashion. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Guest Post: Dilenschneider on Workplace Core Values

Eric Jacobson

The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. A courageous top manager in this firm, Bob Hemphill -- who is a leader, no doubt about it -- decided to declare war on "they."

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Profit Is Less About Good Management than You Think

Harvard Business Review

Benjamin Graham , the father of value investing, seldom met the managers of the companies he invested in because he felt they would tell him only what they wished him to hear and because he didn’t want to be influenced by impressions of personality. So is there something different about the managers who do succeed?

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We Need Both Networks and Communities

Harvard Business Review

Marshall McLuhan wrote famously about the “global village,” created by new information technologies. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. Networks connect; communities care. It sure does.

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A New Framework for Customer Segmentation

Harvard Business Review

Setting the job done framework as a basis for customer segmentation allows us to use all the relevant data for customers in a meaningful and structured fashion. Peter Drucker once said, "The customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him." This then allows the development of specific solutions for each segment.

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Income Inequality Is a Sustainability Issue

Harvard Business Review

He will be “on trend,” as they say in fashion — in recent months, leaders from the new Mayor of New York to the Pope have also been vocal on the subject. Peter Drucker wrote : “One is responsible for one’s impacts, whether they are intended or not. Gorman added his voice to calls for the minimum wage to be raised in the U.S.,