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Loyalty vs. Tenure | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Walking into these organizations is often like traveling back in time 20 years. You see tenure is not synonymous with loyalty, but rather is more often a measure of compliance and survival. These silos are staffed with legions of “tenured&# COBOL and C++ programmers, as well as &# tenured&# IT managers overseeing the operation.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. systems, air travel feels a bit more like a chore than like a treat. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. To understand how aviation has achieved process excellence, we need to back up a bit.

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A Force For Good

Chris Brady

  Thebottom lip was quivering, anger and frustration were bubbling up, crying hadobviously been taking place, and the fight to maintain composure was about tobe lost.   And my son didn't lookmuch better, either!   And my son didn't lookmuch better, either! God bless you and God bless America.

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Freedom for Leg Jigglers

Chris Brady

Up and down, up and down, and the result of his mindless entertainment was that my seat-back tray was bouncing around like a dog in the back of a pickup truck coming home from church on a dirt road. They make it up as they go!  I did come up with a solution for us to deal with our jiggly friends.

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The Pursuit of Happiness

Chris Brady

Like a pyramid with the most essential elements such as food, air, water, rest and sleep at the bottom, once those needs are met the next level is safety, including shelter, security, protection, and stability. Whenever I am serving, giving, and loving, I end up feeling happy. Scam Orrin Woodward and Me out of a free book!)

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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business Review

If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. Viewed this way, there is a bottom-up solution to the problem of America’s uninsured. America spends $3.3 Yet nearly 30 million Americans, or 10% of the population, are uninsured.

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

A recent Fortune article on John Reed, the former co-CEO of Citigroup, reported that a decade ago he tried to convince the newly formed Citigroup board (the result of the $70 billion merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group in 1998) to bring in a new CEO and that both he and Travelers CEO Sandy Weill should leave. We all have.

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