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10 Gifts For You To Succeed In 2011.

Rich Gee Group

Peters and Waterman — “In Search of Excellence”. Next post: Developing The CEO Within You. Every so often, a person comes along, writes a book, and changes the way people act. Napoleon Hill did it with”Think and Grow Rich”. Dale Carnegie — “How To Win Friends and Influence People”. And Keith Ferrazzi — “Never Eat Alone”. Smile or Die!

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5 Core Values For The Workplace

Tim Milburn

Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change. The late Bill McCowan, MCI’s former Chairman and CEO, did “his best to ban. Ask a Japanese CEO to define his primary job, and he’s likely to tell you that his role is to “harmonize” values. ” ACCOUNTABILITY.

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Guest Post: Dilenschneider on Workplace Core Values

Eric Jacobson

Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change. The late Bill McCowan, MCI''s former Chairman and CEO, did "his best to ban. Ask a Japanese CEO to define his primary job, and he''s likely to tell you that his role is to "harmonize" values. Discipline does not always imply following orders.

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Why “Company Culture” Is a Misleading Term

Harvard Business Review

Waterman’s In Search of Excellence , that praised the unique management structure and corporate culture of computer then-giant Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). A great deal of ink has been spent over the past thirty years or so on the idea of corporate or organizational culture. Peters and Robert H.

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How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. The CEO came to a meeting, and that wall was knocked down. Todd Waterman, GE’s corporate Lean leader, is leveraging GE Appliance’s insights with other GE units.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

In the early 1980s, for example, at least some partners — Bob Waterman, co-author of In Search of Excellence , among them — counseled gradual, quiet expansion, this to maintain the top-flight quality of the consultancy's people and its work. The temptation to look down on clients. Which can curdle into envying them.