Cash for Clunkers: What we can learn about Leadership from Bureaucrats?
Whether you agree or disagree that the US Government should be in the business of incentivizing the populace to buy new cars, the fact is that the so-called “cash for clunkers” program simply demonstrates that our government, like all governments, does not employ [...]
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What Business Leaders Can Learn from Obama’s Bad Week
Wow, what a week for the Leader of the Free World. Just as his something-for-nothing-health-care-plan was starting to lose steam on Capitol Hill, one of his friends breaks into his own home, gets lippy with a cop and gets arrested.
In his typical “you never [...]
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How Do You Convince an Interviewer That You Can Lead?
Recently, a reader posed a question after finding our article explaining how young managers can lead older subordinates. Because his question (posted below) required more than just a passing comment as a response, we decided to dedicate an entire post to properly address it. [...]
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Low Hanging Fruit and the Cost of Perfection
Imagine a small airplane flying low over a crowd at a baseball game. The door of the plane opens and a smiling man appears with a large sack. He turns the sack over just as the plane flies over the bleachers and millions of dollars in [...]
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Leadership Lessons from the NBA – The Surprisingly Aware Richard Jefferson
Weeks after being acquired by the San Antonio Spurs, star NBA forward Richard Jefferson was scheduled to marry his redundantly named fiancé, Kesha Ni’Cole Nichols, last Saturday. As you’ve likely heard, Jefferson, late of the New Jersey Nets, got cold feet and called [...]
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The Amazing(?) Amazon Kindle
This week Amazon lowered the price of their popular six-inch Kindle by $60. No fanfare, no major announcements and no (á-la-Steve-Jobs) laser shows. In fact, Jeff Bezos was nowhere to be seen, just a new lower price on the Amazon homepage.
The Kindle, for those of you who’ve been under a rock [...]
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The Short Term or the Long Term
I’m often asked by young managers whether a given decision should be made for the short-term or the long-term well-being of a company; and I always give the same answer: both. No matter what the issue is, the ultimate decision should weigh the pros, cons and consequences [...]
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New York Times – Hardcover Business Best Sellers – July 2009
Okay, how long can this thing last?
What will certainly be recorded as the most successful business book written in 2008, Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers continues to dominate the best seller rankings for the eighth consecutive month. With success like this, Outliers truly [...]
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