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Leadership and the Bully Pulpit
Michael Jackson (no, not that Michael Jackson) loves the bully pulpit. AutoNation’s Michael Jackson, we’ll call him the “non-gloved-one,” is everywhere these days. Officially, he serves as the CEO of the largest automotive dealer group in the US. Unofficially, he serves as the primary spokesperson for all curmudgeons who are good [...]

Tags: leadership news and views, Leadership Situations, Management Training, typical manager

Circuit City – We Told You So…
In what was probably the easiest call in the last ten years, we told you Circuit City was going to go all the way (read our November 12, 2008 post if you don’t believe us). Back then we said you shouldn’t “be fooled by their reorganization plans; Circuit City [...]

Tags: Digression, leadership development, management 101

 
Best of the Leadership Development Blogosphere
We scoured the Leadership Development posts and articles for the past several weeks to find just those precious few that deserve your attention:

Are Leaders Born Or Made?
Marshall Goldsmith and Howard Morgan studied the progress of 88000 managers who had been to leadership development training. The people who returned from the [...]

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

Leading in the New Millennium: Pay for (Lack of) Performance

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

Although Sinclair’s words were uttered in 1935, they ring especially true when applied to the leadership void we face today. While Sinclair, a socialist, didn’t [...]

Tags: Digression, leadership development, leadership news and views, leadership observations, leadership traits

Brett “Cuatro” Favre and the Leadership Lesson of Humility
When you’re wrong, you’re wrong. The best thing to do is admit it. We are certainly humble enough to admit it.
At the beginning of the 2008 NFL season we predicted that the New York Jets would finish the season no better than 8-8… we were wrong. [...]

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

Freakonomics: The Movie
During my extended time off between Thanksgiving and Christmas, I sat down with accomplished entrepreneur and filmmaker Chad Troutwine to discuss the most ambitious documentary ever to pique the interest of the editors of AskTheManager.com.
For those of you unfamiliar with Chad’s work, he is a founder (along with Markus Moberg) of [...]

Tags: Business Books, Digression, Leadership Resources, Management Blogs

More Leadership Lessons from Delta Airlines
In a recent post, we admonished Delta Airlines for the ill-conceived, confusing Delta Breezeway enacted in late 2007. It seemed that even months after its introduction, most Delta gate agents and Delta frequent fliers still had no idea how to use them.
We are proud to say that between Thanksgiving [...]

Tags: business situations, leadership news and views, leadership observations, management 101

Why Detroit Deserved Their Bailout…
(We understand we’re a little late to the party, but we were on hiatus during the whole Auto Bailout mess, and we felt we would be remiss if we didn’t provide our two cents.)
While there is no doubt that the Detroit automakers sowed many of the seeds of their own destruction, [...]

Tags: Digression, leadership observations