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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

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans. percent while the overall unemployment rate is 4.9

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

Michael Lee Stallard

Navy One example of a leader who intentionally developed a Connection Culture using all three bridges is Admiral Vern Clark, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 2000 until his retirement in 2005. To Bono, U2 is “the best example of how to rely on others.” Connecting the U.S. These experiences have shaped them in important ways.

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Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think

Harvard Business Review

Why, for example, can't we have continuously updated earnings releases — that let us see what companies are earning in real-time — for a continuously connected world? There are big and small, worse and better, more and less ethical ways to do the latter. Result: boom, crash, rinse, repeat.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

In the early 1980s, for example, at least some partners — Bob Waterman, co-author of In Search of Excellence , among them — counseled gradual, quiet expansion, this to maintain the top-flight quality of the consultancy's people and its work. billion to $3.4

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

This client was a prime example of a leading CEO who served his community, profession and firm well. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor.