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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

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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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

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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Here’s Why Strategy Chiefs Succeed or Fail

Harvard Business Review

Consider Staples, the office-supplies retailer, which had tumbled from being the market leader to being a third of the new leader’s size by 1992. the danger that the newcomer will clash for political or personality reasons with members of the leadership team). Don’t underestimate the importance of cultural fit.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? We offer three pieces of advice. Focus most on where strategic value is created.

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Leading in a World of Resource Constraints and Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks.

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Case Study: The Ex-CEO Contemplates a Coup

Harvard Business Review

My father acted swiftly to replace the full leadership team, enraging my cousins and their father. My eldest uncle''s sons have also been unable to break into leadership positions. I''m content to be on the sidelines, with my father relying on me for advice. Our markets have taken a beating. Dramatic growth followed.

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9 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2016

Harvard Business Review

With the support of chemical companies , more than 170 countries also agreed to phase out HFCs , the high global-warming-potential chemicals used in air-conditioners and refrigerators everywhere. Many banks heeded the advice, pulling funding from coal. The UN also agreed to slash emissions from the airline industry.

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