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FranklinCovey created an offering that not only included training, but also included stationing a full-time coach at the client’s headquarters to ensure that the process improvements were adhered to for all sales prospects above $500 million. “A company doesn’t get a lot of ‘at bats’ with contracts of that size,” Whitman says. “So we own the
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The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm
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instead of having everyone working on the same feature, the group would break up into project teams and work on several films simultaneously. The latter decision was a particularly shrewd one. Disney has no competition, really, so how does it achieve that sense, so typical of Great Groups, of being a winning underdog? According to Peter Schneider,
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The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last
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Ela Bhatt, a classic Essentialist and truly visionary leader
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In light of the corporate scandals of the last decade, some would add that the most obvious shadow of the modern organization is individual and collective greed.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Disney, John Andrew Rice, and Steve Jobs not only headed Great Groups, they found their own greatness in them. As Howard Gardner points out, Oppenheimer showed no great administrative ability before or after the Manhattan Project. And yet when the world needed him, he was able to rally inner resources that probably surprised even himself.
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