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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

James Heskett and John Kotter found that organizations with strong corporate cultures realized over eleven years revenue growth of 682 percent, employment growth of 282 percent and stock price growth of 901 percent. Boards see the negative impact of a culture crisis on the value of their companies.

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Is Kindness a Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

Crisis averted. I'm sure many supervisors at American would have issues with their colleague's innovative, if mildly deceptive, solution. It's hard to cite many businesses that make kindness the bedrock of their operating strategies. She took Frank all the way to the gate, and Frank made his flight. As my colleague James L.