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These two companies are industry leaders with track records of revenue and profit growth and incredible employee loyalty and commitment because of superb management. The companies are SAS in Cary, North Carolina started 33 years ago with CEO Jim Goodnight at the helm and Nucor Corporation in Charlotte, North Carolina started 45 years ago with the hiring of Ken Iverson. Ken stepped down in 1995 and his successor, Dan DiMicco, took over with his own brand of leadership while sustaining the culture of character initiated by his predecessor. He also led the once smallest steel company in the USA to now the largest in the USA.

SAS is their industry leader as one of the largest privately held software companies in the world. They are dedicated to performance to their customers and to high levels of performance from all. Continuous profitability and employee commitment to them is returned and valued ever since 1976.

Each of these outstanding leaders has proven the “real-world” business value of every element of The New American Leadership System™. Each deserves in-depth study. Along with others cited in this course material, idealism still thrives and is alive and well even in troubled times. These leaders and their achievements are the contemporary examples of the kind of organization culture and innovation that need to be emulated and built on to further The Central Productive Process™ and the Seventeen New Industries that are needed to move the USA to its resurgence beyond this second decade of the millennium. These leaders have the leadership DNA to revive the vibrancy of Capitalism as it must function for the growth of the economy of the USA. The resurgence of Capitalism in the USA is discussed in detail in Chapter Fourteen of The New American Leadership System™.

These stories are my personal hands-on experiences as Leader and Coach. The dates of publication are cited to demonstrate the timeliness and goodness of fit over the short- and long-term.