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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. Each engineer has a pet feature they’d like included in Samsung phones. To do that, Samsung’s leaders must sacrifice the egos of their engineers. Ditto (pardon the pun) the carriers who buy the phones.

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Leamington, Canada: The Little Town That Could

In the CEO Afterlife

Heinz, like so many other multinationals gave the stereotypical corporate rationale — they said the plant was unprofitable and part of a global restructuring. Taking a lesson from the signature phrase in the illustrated children’s book, The Little Engine That Could , the Leamington community did not throw in the towel.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

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Moreover, ethical followers can help leaders avoid making questionable decisions and high performing followers often motivate leaders to raise their own levels of performance. Brown-Nosers are earnest, dutiful, conscientious, and loyal employees who will do whatever their leaders ask them to do.

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Free Tech Tools for the Digital Economy

Strategy Driven

This technology becomes handy for the technical communicators, engineers, and developers when receiving instructional and design requirements from clients in PDF form and needing to edit or revise them. Employers find this type of response a reflection of one’s work ethic and performance. LinkedIn SlideShare: www.slideshare.net.

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