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We at Senn Delaney wish you a healthy and high-performance 2012. To help you, your team and your organization thrive this year, we are pleased to share the best of our thought leadership and interviews. These articles and videos are intended to deepen leaders' understanding that organizational cultures can be intentionally shaped, and that high-performance, thriving cultures create the greatest competitive advantage and achieve outstanding results. Warmest wishes for 2012!

We are pleased to share four of the year's best CEO interviews on culture featuring ING Direct CEO Arkadi Kuhlmann, Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh, Ogilvy & Mather Chairman Shelly Lazarus, and The Home Depot Founder Bernie Marcus.

Griffin Hospital is considered a leader in innovative healthcare, but that wasn't always the case. Today, CEO Pat Charmel shares the story behind the turnaround that led to Griffin being named one of Fortune Magazine's top places in America to work. It all started with innovative thinking, a true focus on the customer and overcoming resistance to conventional thinking and change.

YUM! Brands CEO and Chairman David Novak offers powerful and sincere directives for creating a cohesive, success-oriented corporate culture in his new book, TAKING PEOPLE WITH YOU: The Only Way to Make BIG Things Happen. Several of Senn Delaney's culture-shaping principles are noted in the book. We are pleased to share an excerpt.

James L. Heskett's new book, The Culture Cycle: How to shape the unseen force that transforms performance, demonstrates that developing an effective culture can account for up to half of the difference in operating income between two organizations in the same business. Senn Delaney is pleased to share an exclusive chapter excerpt, Measuring Effectiveness.

CEO list

Many CEOs and leaders trust us to partner with them to drive measureable business improvement

Among the leaders we have worked with:


Zein Abdalla

President, PepsiCo International Europe

Jim Albaugh
CEO, Boeing Company, Integrated Defense Systems

Mike Bell

CFO, CIGNA Corp

Steve Allen
CEO, Nationwide Children's Hospital

Bob Best
CEO, Atmos Energy

Angela Braly

CEO, WellPoint, Inc

Greg Brenneman
CEO, Quiznos and former CEO, Burger King Corp

Michael Brown
Vice-Chancellor/Chief Executive, Liverpool John Moores University

John Bryson

CEO, Edison International

Gaston Caperton
Governor of West Virginia, CEO College Board

Cynthia Carroll

CEO, Anglo American Plc

John Chidsey
CEO, Burger King Corp

Peter Darbee
CEO, Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Don Davis
CEO, Rockwell

Robert Dotson
CEO, T-Mobile US

Dave Dorman
CEO, Pacific Bell

Stephen Douglass
CEO, Payless ShoeSource, Inc.

Peter Erskine
CEO, O2

Marcia Evans
CEO, The American Red Cross

John Eyler
CEO, Toys R Us

Ed Fiorentino
CEO, Abbott Diabetes Care, Inc

Neil Fiske
CEO, Bath & Body Works, Inc

Lew Frankfort

CEO, Coach, Inc

Mark Frissora
CEO and Chairman, Hertz, and former CEO, Tenneco Automotive

Gordon Gee
President, The Ohio State University

J.P. Garnier
CEO, GlaxoSmithKline

Larry Glasscock
Chairman, former CEO, WellPoint, Inc

Martin Glenn
CEO, Birds Eye iglo Group

Richard Gochnauer
CEO, United Stationers, Inc

Jack Greenberg
CEO, McDonald's Corp

Carlos Gutierrez
CEO, Kellogg Company

Andrew Haines
Managing Director, FirstGroup Rail Division

George Heilmeier
CEO, Bellcore

Sir David Henshaw
CEO, Liverpool City Council / Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council

Mickey Holliman
CEO, Furniture Brands International, Inc

Ron Hilton
Chief Executive, Staffordshire County Council

Jerry Jurgensen

CEO, Nationwide Insurance

Stein Kruse
President and CEO, Holland America Line, Inc

Dr. Narendra Kini
CEO, Miami Children's Hospital

Aylwin Lewis
CEO, Sears Retail; Sears Holding Corp

John McCoy
CEO, Bank One Corp

Glenn McCullough
Chairman, Tennessee Valley Authority

Henry Meyer
CEO, KeyCorp

Charles (Wick) Moorman
CEO, Norfolk Southern Corp

David Novak
CEO, YUM! Brands, Inc

Robert Niblock
Chairman and CEO, Lowe's Companies

Rene Obermann
CEO, T-Mobile International

Mike O'Neil
CEO, Bank of Hawaii

Gary Rainwater
Chairman, President and CEO, Ameren Corp

Gary Shorb
CEO, Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare

Anne Stausboll

CEO, CalPERS

Sir John Roberts
CEO, United Utilities Plc

Thomas Ryan
Chairman, President and CEO, CVS/Caremark Corp

Ivan Seidenberg
CEO, Verizon Communications, Inc

Ken Stevens
CEO, Express LLC

Leslie Wexner
CEO, Limited Brands, Inc

Peter Waller
President and CEO, Corinthian Colleges, Inc

David Yates
President, First Data International