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Building Trust Through Behavioral Integrity

Great Leadership By Dan

In that piece, he described his team’s efforts to examine a specific hypothesis (“Employee commitment drives customer service”) in the US operations of a major hotel chain. According to Deloitte’s 2010 Ethics & Workplace Survey, one-third of employed Americans planned to look for a new job when the economy stabilized.

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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better. A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. Strategic sacrifice begins at 30,000 feet with corporate strategy. Each engineer has a pet feature they’d like included in Samsung phones.

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What CEOs Need to Know About the Costs of Adopting GenAI

Harvard Business Review

CEOs must integrate the multifaceted costs into their strategic vision, acknowledging nuances such as inference cost, fine-tuning cost, prompt engineering cost, cloud expenses, talent costs, and operation costs.

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The Value Of A Complementary Team

Lead Change Blog

Back in my formidable days of being a twenty-something manager, Jack, one of the senior leaders of our theme park department, would spend time throughout his days discussing various leadership and operational strategies with us. Building a team, he said, is like putting together an engine or a puzzle.

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5 Leadership Modes for Team Success

Skip Prichard

We are witnessing the most progressive organizations operate as engines for learning. No longer is there paying lip service to personal and professional growth –it’s a sound retention and innovation strategy. It means shedding the old work ethic in favor of a new ethic of work.

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Are We Experiencing A Technology Tsunami?

Rich Gee Group

Engineering, design, materials, and service just got better. What’s the impact on organizations like Symantec (virus), Gartner/Forrester (advisory), HP (printing), and Microsoft (operating systems)? When I was growing up, cars broke down frequently — there were repair shops all over the place fixing almost every part on a car.

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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

Effective leaders know how to achieve operational excellence, and they embrace continuous improvement. Effective leaders set the right tone at the top, which becomes the organization’s ethical standards. Employees trust and want to work for an organization with high ethical standards, and work for a leader who lives by those standards.

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