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Do You Have a Foundation of Great Experience & Culture?

Modern Servant Leader

Much of what I practice in both leadership and technology roles, I first learned early in my career. After college, I joined the Career Development Program at Air Products & Chemicals. Any company can design a similar program and still teach the employees terrible values or ethics. Experience & Culture.

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Building Your Brand “Buddy the Elf” Style – Part 1 :: Women on.

Women on Business

For others, adults, Buddy was a “chemically imbalanced” adult man who thinks and dresses like an elf running around through the streets of New York City. In the movie, Buddy failed dismally to keep up with the production of Etch-a-Sketch toys against the skill and speed of the other elves in the workshop. Are they telling others?

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Case Study: Culture Clash in the Boardroom

Harvard Business Review

As the president of Almond China, he wanted to show his Chongqing colleagues how much he cared about the topic under discussion: ethical business practices. The two went way back: Both had been with their German parent company, Almond Chemical, since 1999, when it first established operations in China. That was fast, Liu thought.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

You would consider first whether you could offer a distinct product to each individual customer that perfectly matches his or her unique preferences. As a consequence, you would begin to lump similar customers together into segments to which you offer a “compromise” product. Quite to the contrary. Consider PPG Industries.