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- What Leaders Can Learn from Sales
- Leaders must sell. Maybe not widgets, but ideas. Maybe not extended warranties, but top priorities. Maybe not service contracts, but competitive context. If leaders can't sell their organization on a vision, they will fail. So what can executives learn about selling from the sales staff don the...
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- McCain, Clinton, Obama: Who is the Best Leader-Manager?
- Great leaders must also be great managers -- vision doesn't implement itself. Do the three presidential candidates have what it takes to translate their demonstrated leadership skills into management acuity? The jury is still out on each of them, says Joseph Nye Jr. in a recent...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- The Pope as CEO
- Jeffrey Immelt and Joseph Ratzinger have more in common than you might think. Immelt, the CEO of GE, and Ratzinger, the CEO also known as pope of the Catholic church, lead global, extremely complex organizations. Both have stellar brands to uphold. Both answer to a higher authority....
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- A Green Oath for Business Leaders
- Most medical professionals take an oath that charges them to consider the broader implications of their actions on society. Business leaders, of course, take no such oath. Until recently, it was commonly accepted that the only interests they served were those of shareholders and, to a lesser...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- How Leaders Go Bad (i.e. Spitzer)
- Two interesting views on the career suicide of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. Writing in BusinessWeek, Harvard Business School professor Bill George fits Spitzer into a failed leadership type he terms "rationalizer." I believe Spitzer's profile closely fits the rationalizer, one who gets so caught...
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Speaking Like Barack Obama
- So we all agree -- Barack Obama can deliver the rhetorical goods like few other politicians. Would you like to be able to command a room and deliver a presentation as well as the presidential candidate? What role does charisma play? In a Harvard...
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Leading From the Rear
- I've just consulted my paper-based(!) American Heritage dictionary on the word lead. The first definition reads, "To show the way to by going in advance." But should leaders also think about directing from the rear? Harvard Business School professor Linda A. Hill is studying...
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Does Fear Motivate Employees?
- Some bosses lead through empowerment, others through intimidation. When I think of an empowering boss, I think of exemplars such as Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard and "The H-P Way." On the intimidation side, well, let's just say Al Dunlap earned his nickname "Chainsaw". So which...
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Taking the Bullet
- Interesting debate taking place over at the Harvard Business site on the idea that true leaders take responsibility when things go wrong -- even if they are not personally at fault. Former Morgan Stanley co-president Zoe Cruz recently lost her job apparently because, according...
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
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