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Winning Now, Winning Later: Playing the Infinite Game

Leading Blog

W HEN David Cote became CEO of Honeywell in February of 2002, the company was a train wreck. By taking the right actions to improve operations now, we could position ourselves to improve performance later, while the reverse would also hold true: short-term results would validate that we were on the right long-term path.

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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2020

Leading Blog

Rather than dispensing simplistic rules, he mentors readers in the development of a mental toolkit for approaching challenges based on how startup markets evolve in real life. Upon becoming Honeywell’s CEO in 2002, he encountered an organization on the verge of failure, thanks to years of untrammeled short-termism.

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SERVANT Leaders are Needful – Acronym Model

Modern Servant Leader

Operating environments change rapidly. A servant leader makes clear their intent to listen to new ideas, encourage the development of others’ ideas and set clear expectations for execution of the best plans. These include the following from Spears and others, Frick & Sipe as well as Russell & Stone (2002).

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Operating Outside Legal Boundaries Helps Companies To Innovate

The Horizons Tracker

New research from IESE explores “informal disruptors” companies that operate outside legal boundaries but quickly gain consumer acceptance due to the value they provide. This peer-to-peer audio file-sharing service disrupted the music industry during its brief existence before bankruptcy in 2002. Take Napster, for example.

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6 Q Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Zenger and Folkman (2002) report that the top 10% of leaders produce five times as much net profit as the bottom 10 %, and twice as much as average leaders. TQ – Technical/Operational Quotient Top leaders know the business. They have the operational skills to make things happen. What does this enlightened leader look like?

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10 Misconceptions About People At Work

Mike Cardus

Unfortunately when this question is asked to executives and managers they are operating off false theories of folklore that are leading them to treat employees as less than capable. List is from Elliot Jaques “Social Power & the CEO” 2002. From the one you believe, do you as an employee operate that way? Why do you work?

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. One of the things I look most forward to is watching Chris continue to develop and refine his thoughts as the medium advances and matures.

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