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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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How Bad Leadership Helped Launch Intel, the Silicon Valley and Venture Capital

Modern Servant Leader

William Shockley contributes to the development of the first transistor while at Bell Labs in 1947. Their work focuses on innovative developments with silicon. Here’s how not one or two, but three different companies lost such talented individuals as a result of bad leadership: William Shockley (seated) at Bell Labs.

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