Management & Leadership
86 Articles & Excerpts
Searching For Greater Accountability In Business
 The Oz Principle
by Roger Connors, Tom Smith, Craig R. Hickman
We think that most people would agree that the need for more accountable organizations, teams, and individuals has done nothing but grow since The Oz Principle was first published ten years ago.
Focus
 Less Is More: How Great Companies Improve Productivity Without Layoffs
by Jason Jennings
Think about how Kmart ended up in bankruptcy court because of its inability to focus on a simple BIG objective. One day, former CEO Charles Conaway directs his company to underprice Wal-Mart on thirty thousand staple items, even though Wal-Mart
A Furniture Dealer's Testament
Less Is More: How Great Companies Improve Productivity Without Layoffs
by Jason Jennings
Imagine being worth a reported $30 billion and counting every penny like it was your last. Welcome to the world of Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Swedish furniture retailer IKEA.
The Great Game of Business
Less Is More: How Great Companies Improve Productivity Without Layoffs
by Jason Jennings
Jack Stack is the CEO of SRC Holdings. Twenty years ago, as a young production whiz for International Harvester, he was sent to Missouri to run Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation, a business unit that rebuilt dirty broken-down engines into like brand
'Thanks for Calling Yellow, Have a Nice Day'
Less Is More: How Great Companies Improve Productivity Without Layoffs
by Jason Jennings
When Bill Zollars was recruited from Ryder Trucks in the late nineties to become CEO of Yellow Freight, a Fortune 500 company, he found a troubled business that had stumbled badly since deregulation of the trucking industry.
The Power of a Simple BIG Objective
Less Is More: How Great Companies Improve Productivity Without Layoffs
by Jason Jennings
One company that's a poster child for productivity, Lantech, based in Louisville, Kentucky, discovered the need for a simple BIG objective the hard way. The traditional means for a company to ready their product for shipment involve putting the individual
A Simple BIG Objective
Less Is More: How Great Companies Improve Productivity Without Layoffs
by Jason Jennings
Before committing even one word to paper, as I led my research team to begin the initial work of identifying a group of the world's most productive companies and figuring out how they do what they do, I'd have never guessed-not in a million years
Assume the sensational; pursue the impossible
 Beyond the Summit: Setting and Surpassing Extraordinary Business Goals
by Todd Skinner
When a mountain is known to be climbable, the summit will be crowded and the route there overrun. To be a first ascensionist, you must think beyond known summits. Because the unimaginable dreams of only last week become today's level of assumption.
First the dream
Beyond the Summit: Setting and Surpassing Extraordinary Business Goals
by Todd Skinner
Who you are is not nearly as important as who you aspire to become. It is critical for the dream to come first, before you are daunted by the analysis of what it will take to achieve your end, before you decide whether it can be done.
Choose the path of greatest gain
Beyond the Summit: Setting and Surpassing Extraordinary Business Goals
by Todd Skinner
Goals with the most rewards are often the most difficult to achieve. We pick challenging mountains not because they are hard, but because we have the most to gain there. We are trying to become people with the ability to accomplish remarkable things.
True success means more than standing on the summit
Beyond the Summit: Setting and Surpassing Extraordinary Business Goals
by Todd Skinner
We climb the mountain not to stand on top, but to gain from the ascent. Choose your mountains according to what you desire to gain, and how that gain will contribute to your further ascent.
You are a product of your mountains
Beyond the Summit: Setting and Surpassing Extraordinary Business Goals
by Todd Skinner
Each mountain you climb will change you, and the more challenging the mountain, the more you have to gain from the ascent. Your mountains include not only those you have climbed, but the mountains that others have climbed whose lessons you internalize.
Setting and Surpassing Extraordinary Business Goals
Beyond the Summit: Setting and Surpassing Extraordinary Business Goals
by Todd Skinner
I might have dedicated this book to Wyoming's Wind River Mountains my earliest and most influential teachers for it was there I first began to understand the profound transformative power of great challenges.
Risking Failure, Second Chances
 We Shall Not Fail: The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill
by Celia Sandys, Jonathan Littman
Courageous men and women get more done. Churchill's fearless approach to life took him where others failed to tread and his curiosity led to important innovations, as we shall see in Chapter 9, Experiment.
Standing Tall, Sharing Courage
We Shall Not Fail: The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill
by Celia Sandys, Jonathan Littman
Following your passion and telling it like it is seldom make for an easy road to travel. Praised for 'conspicuous gallantry' Churchill had his hopes for a decoration dashed by his equally daring journalism.
Daring More
We Shall Not Fail: The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill
by Celia Sandys, Jonathan Littman
Courage is no stranger among leaders. Franklin D. Roosevelt had to face the debilitating onslaught of polio. Andy Grove of Intel had to escape the Nazis as a child and then the Communists as a young man. Churchill considered courage a tangible asset.
Be Courageous
We Shall Not Fail: The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill
by Celia Sandys, Jonathan Littman
A number of men might have come forward to lead Britain in the spring of 1940. Most of the candidates had shunned Winston Churchill for years. Yet when defeat stared Britain in the face, it was to him that the nation turned. Why?
The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill
We Shall Not Fail: The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill
by Celia Sandys, Jonathan Littman
I only knew one of my grandfathers and quite naturally assumed that he was like any other grandfather. I never gave it much thought, but if I had to describe a grandfather he would have been a loving and much-loved man, dressed in a siren suit.
You're the Chief
 First In, Last Out: Leadership Lessons from the New York Fire Department
by John Salka
I've been working on this book for more than twenty years, ever since I stepped down from the cab of 11 Truck's apparatus and came face to face with a big fire that was gutting a ConEd plant on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Leadership Lessons from the New York Fire Department
First In, Last Out: Leadership Lessons from the New York Fire Department
by John Salka
'What makes them do it?'is a question I have been asked hundreds of times in the course of my travels through the United States and other parts of the world. It is a natural question.
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