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Southwest Airlines 2011 Results Reflect Benefits of Servant Leadership

Modern Servant Leader

The company has been a role model of servant leadership since its founding by Herb Kelleher (and others). During the financial earnings call, CEO Gary Kelly , CFO Laura Wright and Executive VP Robert (Bob) E. Jordan reflected the company’s commitment to servant leadership. Improved Results by Acquired AirTran.

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Complimentary Resource – The CFO’s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward

Strategy Driven

The CFO’s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward. This 4-page guide outlines 7 ways that automated compensation management software improves your ROI: Streamlined data and workflow processes. Business application investments that generate ROI. Complimentary Resource – Operational Risk Management.

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How CEOs Can Keep Their Analytics Programs from Being a Waste of Time

Harvard Business Review

The findings show that fewer than half of analytics programs met initial return-on-investment (ROI) goals. But poor ROI is only part of the story. As one financial services CFO told us, “Our mental models were so rigid that even how we thought about data itself needed to be challenged.

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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

But that mind-set's simply too focused and operational. Truly strategic leaderships — and their boards — should treat Brin's "worst idea" as their most provocative thought experiment for revisiting how they recognize and value data. That's the essence of the Big Data business case.

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