“Real Leaders” serve the World!

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A magazine titled REAL LEADERS that we recently found in an airport lounge (in the Spring 2020 issue) contained an article about the top 100 companies that are changing (and serving) the world. The founding sponsors of REAL LEADERS are Bain Capital, Mintz, and KPMG. See REAL-LEADERS.com. In essence, the companies they cite are what […]

Let’s bring back the Spirit of e Pluribus Unum

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To celebrate the birth month (Feb) of two of our most important U.S. Presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, we’d like to draw attention to one of the founding principles of this country: Unity The founders of this country established as its motto “e Pluribus Unum” in 1782. Wikipedia describes “e Pluribus Unum – as […]

How You can contribute to Heaven on Earth

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Have you ever thought of helping to create Heaven on Earth? One of my colleagues, Martin Rutte, has started a project, called Project Heaven on Earth. He’s written a book about it too. People are doing this all over, right in front of our noses. And, unless we see with “new eyes”, we’ll miss it […]

TOXIC Work Places be Gone!

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Have you ever worked in a Toxic Work Environment? You know, where * everyone has their guard up, anticipating the worst (usually from the same person or persons). * and no amount of complaining about it to management causes any meaningful action. Toxic work environments seem to be more like the norm than the exception. […]

A New Standard of Leadership

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“At the height of the 2008 financial crisis, these four corporate leaders stepped forward—and changed how we think of leadership forever,” so writes Bill George in a column of the January 14th issue of Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge, Business Research for Business Leaders, titled ‘These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership’. The […]

A Noble Leader?

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We recently watched the heart-warming celebrations of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush’s life. After the ceremonies, Chris Mathews on MSNBC called Bush “a noble leader”. Indeed, he had all the qualities of a noble leader, such as Serving a HIGHER PURPOSE than just self; Being KIND to everyone he met; (Matthews recalled the […]

Miraculous landing – Noble Leader?

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By now you’ve probably heard about this miraculous landing, described in this article by NBC News. Caring” is not usually a word used in describing a great (i.e., successful) leader. But there it is right there in this article. The article is about the former Navy Pilot who “landed” Southwest Airlines Flight #1380, bound from […]

Southwest is At It again!

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Southwest Airline is the Gift that Keeps on Giving – giving business lessons on how to run a successful airline. First, when they were created, Herb Kelleher’s vision was to make flying domestically affordable for more people – and that they did. A recent ad concludes with someone (presumably the captain) saying over the speaker, […]

Wal-Mart leading the way in the treatment of employees?

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Finally, from all places, Wal-Mart, some sanity re the treatment of employees. Wal-Mart has long been the subject of derision from those who complain that it has replaced small stores (true) and that it has low-paying, dead-end jobs (if that was so, it isn’t any more – read on!)

Leadership Success: Two Stories with Opposing Views

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An old TRUTH: Business is built on a foundation of TRANSACTIONS. Accountants see the health of those transactions as determining business success. Revenues are the sum of sales transactions. On the other side of the equation are expenses, and those are seen too as transactions. So also with investments. Get those transactions (sometimes called “deals”) […]