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Gray Versus Green: Who Makes the Better Start-Up CEO?

N2Growth Blog

” said venture capitalist Vinod Khosla in 2011. This, of course, starts with the CEO, and young companies have a broad set of founders and CEOs with different backgrounds, competencies, and demographics at the helm. Rather than argue for older or younger CEOs, we look at the tradeoff from a neurological point of view.

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Appointing Female CEOs Can Cause White Men To Try Less

The Horizons Tracker

“The general expectation might be that putting a minority status person in a leadership position at the head of a firm ought to end up helping minority status individuals at the firm. The researchers analyzed the makeup of executive teams in 1,000 large and mid-sized American firms between 2006 and 2011.

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Southwest Airlines 2011 Results Reflect Benefits of Servant Leadership

Modern Servant Leader

The company has been a role model of servant leadership since its founding by Herb Kelleher (and others). During the financial earnings call, CEO Gary Kelly , CFO Laura Wright and Executive VP Robert (Bob) E. Jordan reflected the company’s commitment to servant leadership. Improved Results by Acquired AirTran.

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The January Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2011 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Happy New Year, and welcome to the January, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival! This month's edition is a special "Best of 2011" collection of leadership development blog posts from many of our regular Carnival contributors. Sharlyn Lauby, HR Bartender : The Definition of Leadership. This one's been a big hit.".

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from January 2011: "Civility is part of the foundation for bringing out people’s brilliance." TalentAnalytics: “ You cannot delegate culture.” - Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO Great read from @BoozCompany. .” - Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO Great read from @BoozCompany. The Degeneration of Decorum.

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Servant Leadership Observer – October 2011

Modern Servant Leader

Welcome to the October edition of the Servant Leadership Observer. This month brought several news events, including a release by the C12 group highlighting the benefits of servant leadership in business. Want to receive monthly servant leadership updates and regular posts from ModernServantLeader.com? RSS Subscribtions.

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10 Gifts For You To Succeed In 2011.

Rich Gee Group

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 10 Gifts For You To Succeed In 2011. As my holiday gift to you, here are my TEN most read & requested posts from 2010: Set Your 2011 Goals In Two Steps. Smile or Die!

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