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Zingerman’s Turns 30 And Shares Some Secrets to Its Success

It was 30 years ago today that Ari Weinzweig and Paul Saginaw opened the doors to Zingerman’s, a New York style deli on an Ann Arbor, Mich., side street. 

Nobody knew if their concept of high quality, high priced and highly stuffed sandwiches would work. But it did.

Now, Zingerman’s is a $40 million collection of eight businesses with hundreds of people, all based in Ann Arbor, the only place where the company wants to be. And Weinzweig is out with a new book, “Zingerman’s Guide to Good Leading, Part 2: A Lapsed Anarchist’s Approach to Being a Better Leader.”

Packed inside the book are tons of tips to turn employees into energy filled, creative staffers. One of Weinzweig’s ideas is that leaders shouldn’t be the ultimate authorities: they should be servants. How do you instill servant leadership? Continue reading

Leadership: Cleveland’s Quiet Mayor

Normally when politicians go to groundbreaking events, the kind where they all put on hard hats and pretend to shovel, they usually make speeches about how great this new development will be for the city. That’s not the case for Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson.

Mayor Frank Jackson (photo: City of Cleveland Photographic Bureau)

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Leadership: Dave Bing Reimagines Detroit

Mayor Dave Bing wants to reshape Detroit. Photo by Kate Davidson.

DETROIT — How important is the quality of leadership to the economic vitality of a city? And what role can leaders play in the transformation of our region? Changing Gears is exploring these questions in a three-part series on leadership, starting with the man who may have the toughest job of any big city mayor: Dave Bing of Detroit. He has to keep his economically depressed city running, while convincing residents that Detroit must shrink to survive.

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Coming the week of Feb. 14: LEADERSHIP

What difference can a strong mayor make in the success of a city? What are the challenges our mayors and civic leaders face as we reinvent ourselves, and what are their plans to move forward?

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing

In a three-part series, Changing Gears looks at LEADERSHIP. Kate Davidson reports from Detroit on Mayor Dave Bing’s efforts to shrink and revitalize his struggling city. Dan Bobkoff reports from Cleveland, where a decidedly low-key mayor hopes to get results, and where county residents hope a new form of government will drive out corruption.

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