Posts Tagged As Leadership Lesson

A Lesson In Leadership: How Circuit City Forgot the Value of Their Employees

So I thought I would take a break on this post from my usual topics of failure or innovation and instead focus on a lesson in leadership and philosophy.  Last week Alan Wurtzel wrote an insightful post titled “What Circuit City Learned about Valuing Employees” for the HBR Blog.  The article describes how important it is to respect your employees and give them the opportunity to grow.  For the first 50 years this was a core value at Circuit City but by 2000 the company’s executives had all but eviscerated that belief and by the end of 2009 Circuit City was gone.  As I read this article I kept thinking that these were some very important lessons to be learned for every retailer, especially Circuit City’s last remaining true competitor, Best Buy.

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