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Goldman Leaders Forgo 2008 Bonuses
In a recent email from one of our readers, we were asked to weigh in on the Goldman Sachs Group’s leadership decision to request no bonuses for the current calendar year.

What are your thoughts on the following article?  How does this reflect leadership during these troubled times? – Tye Mills

(To [...]

Tags: leadership development, leadership news and views, leadership observations, Leadership Situations, Leadership Weblog, management 101

Leadership Lessons from the President-Elect
As someone who voted for John McCain, I have to admit that (so far) I’m impressed by one of the leadership moves proposed by President-elect Barack Obama. It looks like Obama may build his Cabinet with those who often disagree with him.
Throughout the campaign, Obama seemed like someone who would [...]

Tags: Leadership Advice, leadership news and views, leadership observations

 
Best of the Leadership Development Blogs
Partly due to the 2008 Presidential Race and partly due to the NFL season (now in week 10), we’ve had trouble finding too many great posts or articles on the Leadership Development blogs.
What we could find in the last few weeks was often too mediocre to recommend to [...]

Tags: leadership development, Leadership Weblog

It’s the Leadership, Stupid
These past few months have seen the greatest turmoil in the worldwide credit and stock markets most of us have ever experienced. With depression-like drops in equities and recession-like layoffs, foreclosures and bankruptcies, nearly everyone has been too busy bailing water to blame the Captain… until now.
While much of the culpability for [...]

Tags: Digression, Leadership Advice, leadership news and views, leadership observations

Leadership Means Knowing When Not To Act
Remember that great little restaurant you frequented a few years ago? You know the one; they had that terrifically tasty dish that kept you coming back again and again. Remember when they changed ownership and the new proprietors altered the recipes?
The way I remember it, the new owners [...]

Tags: Leadership Advice, leadership news and views, leadership observations, management mistakes

 
Leadership, Personal Relationships and Infidelity
John Edwards, Elliott Spitzer, Kwame Kilpatrick and Jennifer Aniston’s mates. What do these men have in common? Hint: they are all alleged to have a problem keeping their pants on in the presence of women who are not their significant others.
After hearing about the John Edwards infidelity revelations a few [...]

Tags: Leadership, leadership news and views, leadership observations

 
Leadership Development Blogwatch

Hey, Mr. Manager, what happened to the weekly blogwatch on leadership? – Jerry in Nevada

Wow, we didn’t think anyone would notice if we took a couple of weeks off – no one seems to care when Congress leaves their business unfinished. (I mean, we keep reelecting most of them, don’t we?)
For Jerry, and [...]

Tags: leadership development, leadership news and views, Leadership Weblog

We Digg the New Buzz
Digg this, Yahoo Buzz is the new Digg. Digg, at www.digg.com was the social bookmarking site to end all social bookmarking sites. Not del.ci.ous, not propeller, and not stumbleupon could even come close to the diggity world of Digg.com.
Everything was running smoothly at Digg until Yahoo, which might have the worst [...]

Tags: Leadership Blogs, leadership news and views