Loyalty is by no means dead. In fact the principles of loyalty ...are alive and well at the heart of every company with an enduring record of high productivity, solid profits, and steady expansion. From "The Loyalty Effect". The business world seems to have given up on loyalty: many major corporatio[...]
CEOs regularly announce ambitious growth targets, then fail to achieve them. The reason? Too many companies are addicted to bad profits. These corporate steroids boost short-term earnings but burn out the employees and alienate customers. They undermine growth by creating legions of detractors custo[...]
Argues that loyalty provides the acid test for leadership in today's volatile business environment, and that most leaders deserve failing grades.[...]