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The Senior Leader’s Checklist for Shaping Company Culture

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Back in my own days as an executive, I was hugely influenced by a book called The Discipline of Market Leaders. 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.

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

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In the meantime, the airline’s market value dropped by almost a billion dollars and a Boycott United movement emerged. That didn’t go over well and the outrage increased. It was at that point that Munoz’ statements evolved into a full mea culpa expressing “shame” over the mistreatment of the passenger.

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Ten Years On: Semi-random Reflections from a Decade of Coaching

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.  On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.    As the PATH train emerged from underneath the Hudson, I realized that we were coming up through the foundation of what used to be the World Trade Center.    My first view of Ground Zero was from within it. 

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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.