Bloomberg The Emperor
We wrote a few weeks ago about the seemingly unbelievable possibility that New York Mayor Michael “Nero” Bloomberg would seek to have the City Council overturn New York’s term limits law – opening the door for Bloomberg The Emperor to serve a third term. (To read that post, follow this link.)
As [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Leadership Lessons from Mayor Bloomberg (and Other Emperors)
We’ve often written in this Leadership Development blog about the important traits for good leaders. From intelligence to character, we’ve worked hard to identify those qualities that can help young managers become leaders and older leaders regain their edge. Over the course of these posts, we’ve singled out [...]
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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 [...]
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Leadership and Business Bankruptcy
Bennigan’s, Mrs. Fields and Lehman Brothers. Not really three names you’d ever expect to see in the same sentence, but all three have one thing in common: they all declared bankruptcy in 2008 and substandard leadership is to blame.
Lehman Brothers is certainly the most shocking name on this list. A [...]
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Leadership Development – Best Leadership Blogs for the Week of September 12, 2008
Great week for the leadership writers. The editors of AskTheManager were able to find some terrific posts and articles from some of the best leadership development blogs.
Could all this leadership development activity have anything to do with the nomination of the relatively [...]
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