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Using Underdog Narratives To Motivate Teams

The Horizons Tracker

.” Fighting spirit For instance, consider Apple’s situation in 2001 just before launching the iPod, when the company was facing difficult times. However, Apple’s commitment to innovation and its collective underdog identity revolutionized the way people interact with technology.

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Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders

Strategy Driven

Intensive training and a well-understood chain of command may have instilled in veterans a respect for authority and a commitment to duty, but this was not to the exclusion of their development as leaders. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for this most recent group of transitioning service members is 5.8

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What U2 and the US Navy Have in Common: Connecting with Core Employees

Michael Lee Stallard

We are committed to something larger than ourselves: the protection of America’s interests around the world and democracy.” Within a matter of hours following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, aircraft carriers, Aegis destroyers and cruisers were in position to protect America’s shores. What we do is hard work.

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Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think

Harvard Business Review

So at the Cancun climate talks , one country has already committed to updating it for the 21st century — by including the costs of environmental damage to make the numbers a little more meaningful. There are big and small, worse and better, more and less ethical ways to do the latter. That country?

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It's Your Country.Lead It!

Coaching Tip

For our children's future, America needs to get better by reengineering our shared values and implementing a united ethical purpose. a year between 2001 and 2007 and plunged by 26.2% In this presidential and congressional election year, we must all begin to take action on our stake in this country's future. in the following two years.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

Between 1994 when he was first elected and 2001, in his third term, the Firm more than doubled its number of consultants (3,300 to 7,700), partners (425 to 891), and annual revenues ($1.5 Competitors whispered that Gupta was committing the most un-McKinsey-like of sins: cutting price to get into new markets. billion to $3.4

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Creating a Culture of Unconditional Love

Harvard Business Review

But we all know what happened in 2001. As Peter Drucker put it, “culture eats strategy over breakfast” Just take a look at Southwest Airlines, the company which saw the greatest value expansion in the S&P 500 between 1971 and 2001. By the end of the year, Argentina’s economy had collapsed.