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The Most Important Ingredient to Successful Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

I have done countless speeches on strategy over the years at companies, conferences, and business schools. In most strategies the value you provide your customer is most important, which is why it is squared. The second component is market potential, how much profit can be made in your business.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. Everything is on the table,” Flannery said on a conference call to discuss quarterly earnings. During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half.

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