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Should CEOs Have Term Limits? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Furthermore, last time I checked a CEO can always be removed for lack of performance, or moral and ethical indiscretions, so what purpose do CEO term limits serve other than to disincentivize the CEO? CEOs that cannot operate fluidly and contextually won’t be effective whether they hold the job for 12 minutes or 12 years.

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Definition of Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S. I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003. Truman Please comment below sharing your thoughts and insights on what you believe defines great leadership.

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John Wooden: What the Obituaries Missed

Michael Lee Stallard

In the summer of 2003, the ninety-two year-old Wooden traveled to the White House, where he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor. Coach Wooden operated a meritocracy that treated every player fairly. In 1973, he was honored for his achievements as a coach. why is everyone smiling?

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What Is a Robot, Anyway?

Harvard Business Review

By 1973, there were 3,000 industrial robots in operation. By 2003, there were 800,000. The movement’s aims are to investigate the ethical, legal, and social relationships between humans and machines, to develop machines that can make decisions with a kind of programmatic wisdom, and to help humans make wiser decisions themselves.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. In 2003 he launched an online, interactive "values jam" involving all employees for 72 hours to determine what IBM's values should be. When the U.S.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Moreover, ethical followers can help leaders avoid making questionable decisions and high performing followers often motivate leaders to raise their own levels of performance. Brown-Nosers constantly check in with their leaders and operate by seeking permission, rather than forgiveness.

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Leading in a World Without Secrets

Harvard Business Review

Consistent with the philosophy espoused in HBR way back in 2003 in the article The Myth of Secure Computing , business leaders will need to decide which of their information assets are so valuable that they want to invest a lot to protect them, and which they can’t afford to protect vigorously.