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Southwest Airlines 2011 Results Reflect Benefits of Servant Leadership

Modern Servant Leader

During mergers and acquisitions it is common for companies, especially the acquired, to experience a dip in operational performance. Bucking that trend though, AirTran reflected it’s best operational results ever. Question: What other businesses exemplified servant leadership in 2011? Compensation and Productivity.

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My Best Blogs of 2011

In the CEO Afterlife

So, with the help of WordPress analytics and content judgment, here’s my list of the top ’CEO Afterlife’ blogs of 2011. There has to be a break from day-to-day operations in the process. It was awfully difficult not to make a donation to the industrious and entertaining panhandler at the Santa Barbara pier.

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MFG of South Dakota: Trying To Do Some Good in the World

N2Growth Blog

A family-owned business for more than 60 years, the company has 13 operating entities throughout North America and is headquartered in Ashtabula, Ohio. Fortunately, on December 28, 2017 MFG of South Dakota was granted a reprieve, of sorts, as a new order was received that will sustain operations into the third quarter of 2018.

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Succession Planning: Not Just for Older Leaders

N2Growth Blog

In the most recent turn of events, Blackstone Group withdrew its bid for the company after making the determination that Dell’s future and the PC industry looks bleak. It is essentially impossible not to and this is particularly true in the ever-changing and evolving technology industry. years as of 2011 from 10 years in 2000.

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Diverse Teams Help Organizations Adapt To Change

The Horizons Tracker

Team dynamics The study surveyed over 140,000 alumni from Stanford University, resulting in a dataset of more than 1,000 entrepreneurs who founded ventures across 19 industries from 1960 to 2011, ranging from agriculture to energy and utilities.

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3 Business Reasons for Employee Engagement Program

Chart Your Course

1) Productivity rises: Gallup performed a meta-analysis across 199 studies covering 152 organizations, 44 industries, and 26 countries – which was featured on the Harvard Business Review blog – and found that general productivity was 18% higher at companies where employees were more engaged than not.

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Are We Experiencing A Technology Tsunami?

Rich Gee Group

I parallel this change in my life (and business) with the car industry. Is the same thing happening in the tech industry and all ancillary organizations who attach themselves like barnacles to tech? If so, what is the impact on the industry? Email is slowly going away for me – I text message and call more often.