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Could Your Next CEO Come from Any Department?

Modern Servant Leader

Do you value operations, maintenance, customer service , engineering, information technology , sales , finance, marketing , accounting – all departments, equally? In Good to Great, Jim Collins explains the best CEOs are not external hires, but brought up through internal development.

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Ways to Boost Innovation and Accelerate Organizational Learning

The Practical Leader

Exploration — a broad, open search for strategic partnerships, unresolved problems, latent or unmet needs, new markets and customer segments that potentially fit the organization’s Focus and Context (vision, values, and purpose) and its core competencies. Link part of their compensation to new business or development success.

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

Then joining and remaining on Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For list, Zappos.com’s motto is “We’re a service company and we just happen to sell shoes”, achieved these results and more behind their successful servant leadership. And also The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle, How to Become a Servant Leader.

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

Then joining and remaining on Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For list, Zappos.com’s motto is “We’re a service company and we just happen to sell shoes”, achieved these results and more behind their successful servant leadership. And also The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle, How to Become a Servant Leader.