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Disconnection at the Heart of Corporate Failure

Great Leadership By Dan

My book came about after I watched the floodwaters of the 2004 tsunami wash away the entire resort I was staying in, all except for my own bungalow. Innovate - Open dialogue and trust will unblock the flow of new ideas, which leads to freer thinking and alternative, untried solutions. but will they heed it? Debbie Nicol - Biography.

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Leaders Make Values Visible

Marshall Goldsmith

Every company wants “integrity,” “respect for people,” “quality,” “customer satisfaction,” “innovation,” and “return for shareholders.” I was shown a wonderful video on Enron’s ethics and integrity. Enron is a great example. It didn’t really matter.

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If They Understand, They Will Do

Marshall Goldsmith

They usually suggest that leaders should have high integrity, focus on customer service, deliver quality products, develop great people and encourage innovation. Their answers never have anything to do with ethics or integrity. Most make a lot of sense. Some of these profiles are organized around values and some around competencies.

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

In the CEO Afterlife

By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle. Intuit is successful because they bring their ‘do less better’ cultural ethic to their customers. Complexity had brought LEGO to its knees. Something had to be done.

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Why Today’s Leaders Need to Be Perpetual Learners

Harvard Business Review

Born to immigrant parents in the Australian outback, he would eventually rise to the top of the corporate world, taking over in 2004 as CEO of Dow Chemical. Andrew Liveris likes to defy expectations.

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Fallacy of ‘If They Understand, They Will Do’

Marshall Goldsmith

They usually suggest that leaders should have integrity, focus on customer service, deliver quality products, develop great people and encourage innovation. Their answers never have anything to do with ethics or integrity. In spite of some terrible recent examples of ethics violations, most leaders I meet are highly ethical people.

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Should Inoculation of All Children Be Made Mandatary by Law

Coaching Ourselves

E’er since the design of the low variola vaccinum more two centuries ago, thither has been plenitude of arguing ended the ethics, morality, effectualness, and condom of inoculation and immunisation. Parents, healthcare specialists, nurses, teachers, and children all sustain an significant wager therein outlet. Hear Your Mark.