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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Scooby-Doo: The Movie

Joseph Lalonde

My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available on Amazon. If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. In 2002, the live-action Scooby-Doo movie ( get your copy here ), directed by Raja Gosnell and screenplay by James Gunn, was released. More than the laughs, there are leadership lessons in Scooby-Doo.

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Leadership Inspirations – Communications Excellence | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

Peter Drucker (1909 – 2005) ‘Father of Modern Management’ and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2002 Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar !

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The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome: How Good Managers Cause Great People to Fail Jean-Francois Manzoni (Author), Jean-Louis Barsoux Harvard Business Press (2002) The Negative Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Note: I recently re-read this book while preparing questions for an interview and was amazed, frankly, how relevant the key insights in this book are to those (..)

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Is Your Company as Ethical as It Seems?

Harvard Business Review

The CEO of Volkswagen from 1993 to 2002 was famous for his willingness to demote or fire employees who failed to meet expectations. ” Here, “it” reportedly meant using fraudulent accounting tactics to sweep the company’s losses under the rug and generate artificial gains. billion in inflated profits.

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Bill Ackman Is Just Doing God's Work

Harvard Business Review

Then there''s JC Penney, where Ackman''s push to remake the retailer under the leadership of former Apple Stores chief Ron Johnson has ended in red ink and recriminations. He started developing his famous case against bond insurer MBIA in 2002, and had to wait till 2009 for it to pay off.

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Black History Month: Inspiration Women Leaders Who Changed the World

HR Digest

Wells saw lynching as a violent form of subjugation — “an excuse to get rid of Negroes who were acquiring wealth and property and thus keep the race terrorized and ‘the n *r down,'” Wells also organized economic boycotts long before the tactic was popularized by other civil rights activists, who are often credited with its success.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. In the 1980s, Bridgestone Tire Company purchased Firestone. by Hank Moore. Any company or organization is like a tree.

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