Best of the Leadership Development Blogs
Whenever we’re unsure about whether we’re including too much leadership development and not enough general business fun and digression on AskTheManager.com, we develop the latest Leadership Development Blogwatch and realize that the blogosphere is so filled with junk science, juvenile opinions and professional hucksters that we should almost be [...]
The Stimulus, Obama and Leadership
Eight Hundred Billion Dollars. $800,000,000,000.00. That’s a lot of money. When combined with the $700,000,000,000.00 squandered by or scheduled to be squandered by the Troubled Asset Relief Project (TARP), we’re talking about one and a half trillion dollars. In round numbers, $1.5 trillion looks like this: $1,500,000,000,000.00.
Hard to fathom, really. To [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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“Business Executives” Rank Low in Annual Honesty and Ethics Poll
While nurses topped the list for the seventh consecutive year, business executives earned relatively poor grades in the latest installment of the annual integrity poll from Gallup.
The poll, which surveyed just over 1,000 US adults earlier this month, asked respondents how they would rate the [...]
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