Kevin Eikenberry

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Car Guys vs. Bean Counters – The Battle for the Soul of American Business

Kevin Eikenberry

Books Influence Learning Auto industry Bob Lutz design General Motors management' In his 47 year career he held senior leadership positions at GM, BMW, and Chrysler, then at nearly age 70, rejoined GM as Vice Chairman where he served for nearly ten years.

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Do You Have a Balanced Reading (and Learning) Diet?

Kevin Eikenberry

Do you know all the latest about your hobbies, but are constantly suprised about the changes in in your industry? Are you up to date on all the latest celebrity gossip and political polling, but nowhere near reaching your goals for the year? Questions like these are usefl to help you balance your reading and learning diet.

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What a Leader Can Learn From 20 Cents Postage Due

Kevin Eikenberry

Here’s another brief example of this type of thing in a different industry, a for-profit one (assuming you collect anecdotes like this). Aside from a couple of Office Space references it drives home that there is such a thing as diminishing returns on bureaucracy. I recently had a smartphone go belly up with 9 mos.

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A History of the Job Listing and How It Just Died [Infographic]

Kevin Eikenberry

Careerbuilder was initially a service that helped companies launch job listings and then managed the inbound application volume. No one watching the industry could have predicted the impact of LinkedIn. (Interestingly, Dice’s founders had moved the company far from Silicon Valley – to Des Moines, Iowa – before the late 1990’s crash.).

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