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Winning Now, Winning Later: Playing the Infinite Game

Leading Blog

W HEN David Cote became CEO of Honeywell in February of 2002, the company was a train wreck. By taking the right actions to improve operations now, we could position ourselves to improve performance later, while the reverse would also hold true: short-term results would validate that we were on the right long-term path. He did both.

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Helping New Employees Into Healthcare

The Horizons Tracker

The program, operated by Inspira in partnership with the North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, aims to provide job seekers with employability skills and practical work experience. I worked in Primary Education since 2002 as it worked around my family life when my children were young.

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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2020

Leading Blog

Upon becoming Honeywell’s CEO in 2002, he encountered an organization on the verge of failure, thanks to years of untrammeled short-termism. Dave Cote is intimately familiar with this problem.

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Building Trust Through Behavioral Integrity

Great Leadership By Dan

Tony Simons’ powerful article, “ The High Cost of Lost Trust ,” appeared in the Harvard Business Review in 2002. In that piece, he described his team’s efforts to examine a specific hypothesis (“Employee commitment drives customer service”) in the US operations of a major hotel chain.

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SERVANT Leaders are Needful – Acronym Model

Modern Servant Leader

Operating environments change rapidly. For the drill press operator (who should be voting on the kind of tool to use) to vote on whether to declare a stock split would be equally foolish. These include the following from Spears and others, Frick & Sipe as well as Russell & Stone (2002). The only constant is change.

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Independent Board Members Aren’t The Silver Bullet For Corporate Governance

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers quizzed a number of board members about how their board operated, their motivations for serving, and what they believed their responsibilities to be, whether to the public, to employees of the firm, or to shareholders. “We looked at what they said and then looked for common themes,” the researchers explain.

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Building Residual Income By Franchising Your Business

Strategy Driven

Franchising is a the ultimate definition of scale where a business owner removes themselves completely from operational responsibilities in order to become a coach to others who wish to enter the world of entrepreneurship. billion and a boat that is larger than some countries.