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Apple and “Little Dutch Boy” Strategy, Cont’d.
Is Apple Still Thinking Different?
My friend Professor Gregory Unruh of Thunderbird School of Global Management has written a fine post for Harvard Business Review: “Apple and the ‘Little Dutch Boy’ Strategy.”
Professor Unruh suggests that Apple is behaving like the “Little Dutch Boy,” temporarily plugging the dyke of rising stakeholder CSR expectations with a finger.
The post raises a series of points worthy of reflection.
Douglas MacArthur | West Point Farewell
Yahoo Faces Changing Winds of 21st Century Leadership
- Patti Hart–Caught in Winds of Change of 21st Century Leadership
First, new Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson faces questions from apparent misstatements on his resume.
Now, board member Patti Hart, who had led the selection of Thompson, has resigned.
What’s the bigger picture?
Just One Thing: Create Joy Amid Necessity
Several years ago I emerged from several hours of rather mundane labor, having removed and replaced two toilets in my home.
A neighbor, noticing the movement of boxes, came over to view the results. He was complimentary of the work.
His wife, on the other hand, diminished it. She said, “Well it’s not really anything….. He enjoys doing it….”
She touched upon something important. Unfortunately, since she did not frame her observation in terms of a question, the underlying issue didn’t remain alive through the oxygen of discussion.
In fact, she was only partly right.
She regarded my cast of mind as an accident. In fact it was the result of decisions I was determined to make and carry through. The rather unremarkable work at hand was just an occasion to apply my chosen thought process.
Daniel R. Murphy | Benjamin Franklin Self-Improvement Project
Self-improvement is a foundation of leadership. If leadership is to have meaning over time, to be sustainable, it requires continuous attention and effort.
This is not a new or novel idea.
Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous of the American founders, wrote extensively about the need to engage in continuous self-improvement. His life’s work can be seen as an ever expanding act of leadership and service, built upon his own project of self-improvement, reaching ever greater numbers of others.
From the vantage point afforded by the distance of two centuries, we recognize the value and relevance of Franklin’s project. One might well say that self-improvement is part of our national DNA. It is a recurring strand of practical idealism that makes us unique, renders us one.
In the article that follows, Daniel R. Murphy distills the essence of the Franklin method. –jms
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