Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2021

The early colonial years included land charters and grants, such as those to William Penn and George Calvert, but these often went to absentee landlords. Prior to his 2020 appointment, he was managing partner of Gabriel Investments and chair of The Governor’s Woods Foundation, a nonprofit philanthropic organization.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I was fortunate that my father had an opportunity to be a student in the famed four-day seminar, while working as an engineer at the Cadillac division of General Motors, in the late 1980s. Edwards Deming.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

Three Levels of Management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. Beginner’s Management [Newbie or Management 1.0]. Fundamentals of being a manager : They ask “what needs to be done?”.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

Gallup has found that one of the most important decisions companies make is simply whom they name manager. Bad managers cost businesses billions of dollars each year, and having too many of them can bring down a company. Managers account for at least 70% of variance in employee engagement scores across business units, Gallup estimates.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2017

In this approach, organizational culture is understood as a variable to be used in projects of social engineering aimed at creating unity and cohesion. This may be as obvious as open disagreement, or as subtle as a manager quietly reshaping a project to reflect their personal ideas about how things should be done.

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