What happens if everything you learned about leadership didn’t actually prepare you for your new leadership assignment? That’s the situation Captain David Marquet found himself in when, at the last minute, he was reassigned to a submarine different than the one he had been prepared to lead. On top of that, his new assignment, the USS […]
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Next time you visit a Starbucks, consider, It’s Not About the Coffee. What? That’s probably not the book title you’d expect from the first president of Starbucks International. But it is the title of Howard Behar’s book, subtitled, Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks. Howard joined Starbucks as a senior executive
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Imagine you’re the new leader of a struggling organization. Seven other people have held your job in the last few years. Results have been in a downward spiral. Sales have plummeted. Relationships with key stakeholders are strained. That describes what Cheryl Bachelder saw when she became CEO of Popeyes®Louisiana Kitchen back 2007 – not a
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