Facebook Inc (FB), Citrix Systems, Inc. (CTXS): America’s 9th Best CEO Will Give You an Investing Edge

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Maybe one of the reasons Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) has performed so well, and Templeton has gotten 95% of his employees to approve of the job he’s doing, is because of his leadership style. In an interview with The New York Times, Templeton stated:

You have to make sure you never confuse the hierarchy that you need for managing complexity with the respect that people deserve. Because that’s where a lot of organizations go off track, confusing respect and hierarchy, and thinking that low on hierarchy means low respect; high on the hierarchy means high respect. So hierarchy is a necessary evil of managing complexity, but it in no way has anything to do with respect that is owed an individual.

If you say that to everyone over and over and over, it allows people in the company to send me an email no matter what their title might be or to come up to me at any time and point out something — a great idea or a great problem or to seek advice or whatever.

There’s no doubt: culture simply matters.

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