By Herb Kelleher - HAT'S the secret to building a great organization? How do you sustain consistent growth, profits, and service in an industry that can literally change overnight? And how do you build a culture of commitment and performance when the notion of loyalty -- on the part of customers, employees, and employers -- seems like a quaint anachronism? I can answer basically in two words: be yourself. ^pop (Added: 20-Apr-2001 Hits: 4072 )

By Jim Collins - EXECUTIVES spend too much time drafting, wordsmithing, and redrafting vision statements, mission statements, values statements, purpose statements, aspiration statements, and so on. They spend nowhere near enough time trying to align their organizations with the values and visions already in place. (Added: 20-Apr-2001 Hits: 2848 )

By Joan Lloyd, C.S.P. - Eventually, the corporate gardener can't ignore that the garden has become a tangled mess of poor performance. The bottom line suffers; the vegetables are small and the yield is disappointing. The weeds have taken over and the best plants are getting choked out. They prune the garden by cutting everything evenly across the board, then they step back and hope the good plants will be able to compete against the fast growing weeds. (Added: 9-Jan-2002 Hits: 779 )

By Eileen McDargh - From my home office, I can look out and see my garden. It's loaded with wonderful, terrible sights, sights that mirror much I find in many of our companies. You'd recognize it too... (Added: 24-Mar-2001 Hits: 1021 )

By Jeannette Galvanek - It is humility that allows others to know that they are comfortable in their own skin. You must be comfortable there to help others be comfortable in their own skin as well. (Added: 10-Oct-2001 Hits: 1226 )

By Jay Conger - Leadership programs offer everything from white-water rafting to encounter groups. But do they really train leaders? Yes, if they take a multi-tiered approach and recognize that it takes skill and time to succeed. (Added: 20-Apr-2001 Hits: 2990 )

By Joan Lloyd, C.S.P. - Organizations are luck if they have a CEO who realizes that his or her behavior determines, to a large degree, which way the pendulum will swing. Regardless of the size of the company, there are critical cause and effect behaviors that CEO’s need to be aware of. (Added: 13-Feb-2002 Hits: 513 )