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Disconnection at the Heart of Corporate Failure

Great Leadership By Dan

It brings executive leaders to a quiet place where they can see the value of stopping, looking, listening and feeling, allowing intuition to enter decisions, using connection to drive operations, welcoming the change that becomes or evolves, in line with a whole new menu of rewards that corporations of the future will embrace.

Open-book 276
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What Connects Coca-Cola, Lego, In-N-Out, Intuit, and Nike? Focus.

In the CEO Afterlife

Thanks to Coke’s global reach, brand power, bottling network, and single-minded focus, I’m betting on Coca-Cola sustaining this competitive advantage. By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines. This vision establishes the principles for running a simple operation. Their goal is to make accounting, simple.

Apparel 100
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When Success is Born Out of Serendipity

Harvard Business Review

What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? The demand for my ideas surged and soon went global. On this day, though, she had just been asked to describe the "business-case for diversity" for her firm. The interest took me completely by surprise.