Five Tips From Atsutoshi Nishida on Overcoming a Crisis
March 4, 2008
The Wall Street Journal interviewed Toshiba Chief Executive Atsutoshi Nishida who recently pulled the plug on the company's HD DVD business. From that interview came the following wisdom regarding crisis leadership in particular but good ideas to keep... Read more...
Leadership Books: March 2008
March 3, 2008
Here's a look of some of the best leadership books to be released in March. Five Future Strategies You Need Right Now (Memo to the CEO) by George Stalk with John Butman Outsmart! How to Do What Your Competitors Can't: The Power of Organizing... Read more...
Aristotle on Virtuous Leadership
February 29, 2008
James O’Toole surveys the works of Aristotle in Creating the Good Life, and creates a practical framework that can be used to evaluate leadership in our own time. This excerpt is from a section regarding community leadership: Aristotle says a leader... Read more...
Out of Context: Gaius Petronius Arbiter on Reorganizing
February 28, 2008
"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized…. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the... Read more...
5 Leadership Lessons: Charles Handy’s Wisdom
February 27, 2008
Charles Handy’s memoir, Myself and Other More Important Matters, is full of candid insights from a thoughtful life. Here are a few lessons to take away: If all your expectations with life work out well then you probably haven’t pushed yourself... Read more...
Miles’ Law and Six Other Maxims of Management
February 25, 2008
Rufus E. Miles, Jr. (1910-1996) was an assistant secretary under Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and six H.E.W. secretaries. He developed from “memorable encounters with reality,” Miles’ Law and Six Other Maxims... Read more...
The Increasingly Political Role of Business
February 21, 2008
Recent articles in Foreign Affairs and The McKinsey Quarterly, promote the idea that businesses have a clear responsibility—increasingly a very political one—to the community beyond its shareholders. In Foreign Affairs, Klaus Schwab, the Executive... Read more...
Quarrel Not At All: The Stuff of Command
February 18, 2008
In President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman, the follow-up to Lincoln’s Virtues, William Lee Miller, writes that if you knew Lincoln before he became president, you knew that it was part of Lincoln’s character to be capable of overlooking slights... Read more...
Best Presidents In History - 2008 Harris Poll
February 17, 2008
Harris Interactive conducted an online poll within the United States last month. They asked over 2000 adults: Which one of the following presidents do you think was the best overall president in our history? The list included all presidents since Franklin... Read more...
Out of Context: Managing Paradox
February 14, 2008
The more turbulent the times, the more complex the world, the more paradoxes there are. We can and should, reduce the starkness of some of the contradictions, minimize the inconsistencies, understand the puzzles in the paradoxes, but we cannot make them... Read more...
