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Hot Seat: Jeff Immelt at GE

Leading Blog

I N SEPTEMBER 2001, Jack Welch was a tough act to follow. And in 2001, the economic tailwinds that Welch enjoyed were about to shift. Much of what needed to be done at GE were long-term propositions. Immelt states in Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company : The best leaders absorb fear.

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Leadership Lessons in Southwest Airline’s Fall From Grace

Modern Servant Leader

The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. In servant-leadership terms, this is a failure of the principle, THOROUGHNESS. To be thorough means putting long-term results ahead of short-term gains.

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Leadership Lessons in Southwest Airline’s Fall From Grace

Modern Servant Leader

The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. In servant-leadership terms, this is a failure of the principle, THOROUGHNESS. To be thorough means putting long-term results ahead of short-term gains.

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George H.W. Bush 1924-2018

Leading Blog

As a leader produced by the greatest generation—a term coined by Tom Brokaw to mean those who lived during the Great Depression and then went on to fight in World War II—Bush lead with moral authority. Most notably, he served two terms as vice-president under Ronald Reagan before becoming the forty-first president of the United States.

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Using AI To Better Manage A City’s Waste

The Horizons Tracker

Recent research from the University of Johannesburg explores how AI can give waste managers a helping hand in forecasting the landfill requirements of their city in the medium to long-term. million between 1996 and 2001. “In the short term, the first step the city can take is educating people, so they start recycling more.

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The Rise In Portfolio Careers

The Horizons Tracker

Once upon a time the portfolio career was seen as pretty sexy and came to typify the “free agent nation” spoken about by Dan Pink way back in 2001. But this status offers no protection and – in the long term – it is disastrous, both for workers and for society as a whole.”.

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Accelerate Your Growth through Agile HR Practices

HR Digest

The Agile Manifesto written by a collection of 17 bright minds in 2001 , gave rise to a collection of values to guide software development in an agile, adaptive manner. Popular Terms in the Agile HR Approach To better understand the agile HR approach, familiarizing yourself with key terms can be helpful.

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