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From Drucker To The Lean Startup: The (Literary) Evolution of Leadership Philosophy

Terry Starbucker

The goal of the series is to bring you valuable and actionable insights that can help you on your personal leadership journey, from my more human perspective (What’s being more human all about? Start here ). In Search of Excellence - by Tom Peters & Robert H. Out of the Crisis - by W.Edwards Deming.

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Want to Improve Customer Service – Treat Your Employees Better

The Practical Leader

based consultancy, adds: “create a great employee experience so those employees can deliver a great customer experience. ” In the article, leadership author and consultant Robert Kelley explains the phenomenon this way: “Service providers treat customers similar to the way they as employees are treated by management.

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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. Dilenschneider is the founder and Chairman of The Dilenschneider Group, a global public relations and communications consulting firm head­quartered in New York City. ” ACCOUNTABILITY. Author Bio: Robert L.

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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. Dilenschneider is the founder and Chairman of The Dilenschneider Group, a global public relations and communications consulting firm head­quartered in New York City. Author Bio Robert L.

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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). Dropping the term “culture” from the lexicon of organizational and corporate consulting and research would be a good step in that direction.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

As anyone with the slightest interest in the consulting business knows by now, the SEC has brought civil charges against Rajat Gupta in the Galleon insider-trading case. Indeed, his lawyer says the ex-consultant lost millions on an investment with Raj Rajaratnam, the central figure in the case.) from 1994 to 2003. billion to $3.4