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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Each engineer has a pet feature they’d like included in Samsung phones.

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Leamington, Canada: The Little Town That Could

In the CEO Afterlife

Taking a lesson from the signature phrase in the illustrated children’s book, The Little Engine That Could , the Leamington community did not throw in the towel. However, an outraged customer of the French’s brand who knew the Leamington saga went to Facebook and posted his distaste for Loblaw’s decision. That’s right, one day.

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How To Spin A Huge Mistake Into Leadership Gold

Terry Starbucker

I’d always appreciated the Code of the West ( from Jim Owen’s book, “Cowboy Ethics” ) – I saw it often on posters in the offices of many of my staff in Wyoming: Live each day with courage. Ride for the brand. It’s all going down” my Network Operations Center (NOC) manager reported to me. We can’t fire that engineer Terry”. “I

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Definition of Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S.

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Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders

Strategy Driven

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans. Bill Sebra is Chief Operations Executive at Korn Ferry Futurestep. About the Author.

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Free Tech Tools for the Digital Economy

Strategy Driven

This technology becomes handy for the technical communicators, engineers, and developers when receiving instructional and design requirements from clients in PDF form and needing to edit or revise them. Employers find this type of response a reflection of one’s work ethic and performance. LinkedIn SlideShare: www.slideshare.net.

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In a New Era for Marketing, Parental Discretion Advised

Harvard Business Review

Provided with plenty of comparable alternatives, and facing plenty of discretionary purchases, they'll choose to patronize the brand owned by the company they hold in higher esteem. Suddenly, a brand's paternity is not only easy for customers to discover, it's important to them to consider. This is a new phenomenon.