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Could Your Next CEO Come from Any Department?

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Do you value operations, maintenance, customer service , engineering, information technology , sales , finance, marketing , accounting – all departments, equally? How do you view each department in your organization? Therefore, your organization is best served by looking across the entire company for future leaders.

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Leadership Lessons in Southwest Airline’s Fall From Grace

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In their case, the desire to remain profitable every year was a short-term gain leadership chose over the long-term benefits of upgrading their technology. Invest in Technology. Too often, information technology and operational tools are minimized as costs to be controlled.

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How Bad Leadership Helped Launch Intel, the Silicon Valley and Venture Capital

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Yet, were it not for the bad leadership of Shockley, Bell Labs and Fairchild Semiconductor, one wonders if we’d ever have had Intel, the semiconductor as we know it today or even the information technology revolution? or returns massive investments (look at Intel Stock since IPO), what do you do?

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Leadership Lessons in Southwest Airline’s Fall From Grace

Modern Servant Leader

In their case, the desire to remain profitable every year was a short-term gain leadership chose over the long-term benefits of upgrading their technology. Invest in Technology Too often, information technology and operational tools are minimized as costs to be controlled.

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How to Create a Priorities Map

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For example, Accounting, Finance and Information Technology teams. In business, this will typically include employees, customers and investors. Chances are this is too broad though, and you will need to break these out into specific groups. Establish Weighted Connectors for Priorities.

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