Today’s Leaders Are Tomorrow’s Followers
For some reason I’ve run into too many business leaders lately who know less and less about how their businesses are being marketed on the Internet. From owners and CEOs to vice presidents and general managers, leaders (even good ones) are getting further detached from the realities of what truly drives [...]
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Leadership Lessons from Cash for Clunkers
Without diving too deeply into a mini controversy from last week, let me just enlighten you with some quick facts:
Edmunds.com estimated that the recent Cash for Clunkers program cost US taxpayers about $24,000 per incremental vehicle sold;
The chief economist of the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) responded that the cost [...]
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Delta Renames In-Flight Wireless Internet
Dubbed GoGo when released (see our original excited post about GoGo Wi-Fi published on January 12, 2009), it is rumored that Delta has decided to rename their in-flight wireless Internet service NoGo to signify that the service is still not available on all flights nearly nine months since its [...]
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Leadership Decision Making and The Law of Unintended Consequences
Certainly you’ve heard the axioms “nothing happens in a vacuum” and “for every action there is a reaction” before. We’re pretty sure that every thinking adult not only understands these sayings, but also believes them to be true.
Cause and effect, means and ends, [...]
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Cash 4 Clunkers Causes Conservatives 2 Clamber 4 Gov’ment Cheese
An interesting sociological experiment and a great leadership lesson has emerged from the US Government’s Cash For Clunkers program: We observed the previously fiscally-conservative put their hands way out, looking for their version of Government Cheese.
It is difficult to get a man [...]
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For Young Managers, it’s not Just About Gaining the Respect of Subordinates
One of the most common questions from our readers concerns how they as younger managers can lead older subordinates – all while maintaining respect and sanity. Where we felt we could help, we’ve provided these youthful leaders advice and guidance as recently [...]
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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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