Posts for "leadership"


A New Understanding of Reality for Paul Krugman

From Brainware
March 6, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Having lived and worked in three very different worlds, and having grown up in Kentucky, Michigan and Minnesota, I'd have to be terribly naive not to understand that cultures ... (more)

Can the U.S. Actually Learn Something About Finance from Canada

From Brainware
March 5, 2010 at 8:36 am
The subtitle of an article in BusinessWeek, of all places, describes the issue clearly: While America’s bailed-out banks lobby against reform, Canada’s profitable banks are ... (more)

Quotation of the Week: Ursula Burns of Xerox

From
March 3, 2010 at 11:45 pm

The accolades that I get for doing absolutely nothing are amazing–I’ve been named to every list, literally, since I became the C.E.O.
–Ursula Burns, new CEO of Xerox.  First

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Roger Martin of Rotman, theToronto Business School

From Brainware
March 1, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Here’s a recommendation.  One of the bloggers I like an awful lot is Dean Roger Martin of the University of Toronto’s Rotman Business School.  He’s a prolific writer and ... (more)

Coach Johnson’s Top Blog Posts For February

From Young Professional Leader Lounge
March 1, 2010 at 12:48 am
Greetings young professional and rising leader! I wanted to call out the most popular posts for the month of February. Listed in order of popularity, the three posts below received ... (more)

Personal Brands: Don’t Pack More Than You Can Carry

From Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel
February 23, 2010 at 8:30 am
According to Sunday’s New York Times, the new CEO at Xerox does her own grocery shopping and most of her own household chores. Ursula Burns flies on the corporate jet, but she ... (more)

Discover Your Public Service Identity

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
February 22, 2010 at 2:20 am
Brewer, Selden, and Facer, in a shockingly under-discussed academic article published in 2000, contributed to theories of public-service motivation by identifying four individual ... (more)

You gotta trust…

From Silvana Avinami: The Blog
February 21, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Trust – an over-used term, I know.  That’s why the kind of trust I write about is not the one gurus and career coaches the world over suggest we build with our clients, colleagues ... (more)

¿Te suena familiar?

From Silvana Avinami: The Blog
February 21, 2010 at 9:25 am
Es a diario que me tropiezo con personas que sueñan en grande – y ahí se quedan.  Es decir, sus acciones ni filosofías soportan sus aspiraciones.  Mas bien viven guiados ... (more)

How to Lead with Empathy: Read Fiction

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
February 16, 2010 at 3:46 pm
It’s not a surprise that great change-makers and buiness leaders (like Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Nelson Mandela), when asked about their favorite book, say something ... (more)

An apology just doesn’t cut it

From PseudoHR
February 16, 2010 at 8:00 am
A slap on the wrist and a request for an apology for Reindeer Games; really? Get real. I really enjoyed the first episode of Undercover Boss but the episode that aired Sunday night ... (more)

…y sale pa’ pintura.

From Silvana Avinami: The Blog
February 14, 2010 at 6:36 pm
Se que arriesgo pasar por intensa.  Aun así por favor alguien me explica como es posible que las compañías – con la ayuda de sus empleados – se ponen metas, luego diseñan ... (more)

When Smart Managers Do Stupid Things

From Drew Stevens Consulting
February 13, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Recently a friend of mine was conducting performance reviews for her staff. She has 16 direct reports and when finished all received a superlative review. With the completion of ... (more)

Chopping your own foot off to spite your face – The loss of an A Player

From PseudoHR
February 11, 2010 at 8:00 am
I’ve seen good players and bad players, more than I’d like to have seen. On occasion a real honest to goodness rock star, A player, whatever you like to call them comes ... (more)

Meet your people, people

From PseudoHR
February 10, 2010 at 7:30 am
So I’m watching Undercover Boss Sunday night just like every other HR nerd out there and I thoroughly enjoyed it.  A few things stuck out as odd to me, one in particular was ... (more)

5 Coaching Tips To For Becoming A Decisive Young Professional

From Young Professional Leader Lounge
February 8, 2010 at 2:00 am
Greetings young professional and rising leader! “Nothing is more difficult and more precious than being able to decide.” – Napoleon Cereal or oatmeal? Red shirt or blue ... (more)

Leaders Challenge The Status Quo

From Young Professional Leader Lounge
February 3, 2010 at 12:28 am
Greetings young professional and rising leader! Are you challenging the status quo? Today I want to share a story with you about a recent experience I had while shopping. By now ... (more)

Watch how they rise

From Silvana Avinami: The Blog
January 30, 2010 at 7:34 pm
One of the main conclusions that can be reached from looking at the list of the world’s top 50 CEOs – as it appears in the Harvard Business Review (click here to listen to ... (more)

The untitled leader – a review of ‘You don’t need a title to be a leader’

From PseudoHR
January 29, 2010 at 7:30 am
On my most recent trip back from Chicago, I stopped by a bookstore in Terminal 3 of the O’hare airport for something new to read while I waiting for my flight to board. ... (more)

Why Great Teachers Make Great Leaders

From Musings from The Generation We Coach
January 27, 2010 at 7:01 pm
I know that my background designing, delivering, and evaluating participant-centered professional development programs for New York City educators prepared me deliciously for ... (more)

Jeffrey Deitch and the Management-Trained Museum Director

From Colleen Dilenschneider- Know Your Own Bone
January 27, 2010 at 2:42 pm
Jeffrey Deitch will become the Director of MOCA on June 1, 2010. Photo from cityfiles.com Earlier this month, LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) announced their nontraditional ... (more)

Comic Book Leadership

From UpstartHR
January 27, 2010 at 8:00 am
Shall I make yet another confession? Yes, I believe I shall. I like comic books. While I haven’t been an active reader in years, I still love flipping through them at the bookstore. ... (more)

Bottom-up leadership

From Tim Bursch
January 26, 2010 at 11:43 pm
I was listening to this podcast by 37signals on work. They tell the story of MeetUp and how they tackled a huge amount of projects. You can listen here. What got me was the paradigm ... (more)

Safa el Blablablá

From
January 24, 2010 at 7:24 pm

(Post inspirado por la rima: “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.”) 
Desde hace un tiempo llevo molestándome cuando escucho a personas hablar

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Pre-employment testing or homework?

From PseudoHR
January 20, 2010 at 7:30 am
My husband is in IT and he’s looking for a Network Administrator in his office.  We frequently talk about the resumes he gets in and how his interviews go.  I like it when ... (more)