HCL’s Vineet Nayar Bloomberg UTV’s “The Date Pathbreakers” “Nayar was appointed president of HCL Technologies in April 2005. He went on to reshape the organization with his ‘Employee First, Customer Second’ philosophy, which placed the needs of the employee before [...]

Edward Deming is known as the father of the quality movement. TQM became a fixeture of many industrial and non-industrial companies. Yet, according to studies two thirds of companies consider that TQM hasn’t met their expectations. Is it TQM’s or [...]

Bob Davids, a great liberating leader who built freedom-based cultures in a number of companies including Radica Games in China and Sea Smoke Cellars in California (see www.bobdavids.com) shares his leadership lessons. Enjoy.

With many CEOs running their businesses into bankruptcy by making questionable business decisions and indulging in ego-driven excesses, the CEO of Japan Airlines proves that Americans can learn something from others. Just as Japanese business models helped it become a [...]

We have already written on the liberating style of John Wooden, not only the 20th century greatest coach according to ESPN, but also one of the greatest servant leaders (see here). Here is John Wooden’s rare talk given in 2001 [...]

Richards Group’s culture and its founder APRIL 10, 2010     Richards Group is famous for its advertisements like the notorious Chick-fil-A ads in which cows try to save their hides by getting us to eat chicken instead of beef [...]

Gore ‘s culture by its CEO DECEMBER 8, 2008     W. L. Gore & Associates is famous for its culture but it is a notoriously hard to get in company if you want to observe this culture firsthand (we [...]

SEMCO ‘s culture by Semler on   MARCH 6, 2007   Here is an excerpt of Semler’s interview: KERRY O’BRIEN: Do you have any respect for a corporate culture, say, an investment bank, a very successful investment bank, where part [...]