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In modern times we are in serious danger of believing that those who talk the loudest and the most will win the day. My experience over the years has been that those leaders who can actually keep their mouths shut and ears open have a better chance of being heard, believed and followed.
Rekindling the […]
Being an effective leader is challenging even when times are good, let alone during a time of corporate scandals and a rapidly transforming global economy.
Paul Taffinder, a partner in the London office of management consulting firm Marakon Associates, and author of The Leadership Crash Course: How to Create Personal Leadership Value (Kogan Page, 2006), spoke […]
Imagine you were recruited to be CEO of a company that you weren’t familiar with. To get to know the business, what would you ask for (after, of course, negotiating an outrageous salary, a luxury car lease, a fat pension, stock options and bonuses)? One of the first things: the company’s vision and mission statements, […]
An inside look at one of the most exclusive intellectual clubs in the world - and how you can set up your own brain trust.
Here’s an idea: Gather up the smartest people in the world, put them in a room with executives from your agency, close the door and let the conversations begin. Unlike innovative […]
We love to fire leaders. In business, it’s good for the stock. According to Burson-Marsteller, stock price appreciation of S&P 500 companies averages 1.5 percent on the announcement of a new CEO. And when the board fires the CEO, a company’s stock price increases 3 percent. Is it any wonder that leadership tenure has fallen […]
Anyone who has worked in government knows it’s not easy to get city, county and local agencies to agree on anything. Patricia Curtis has made a career of it.
Curtis, director of management information systems for Leon County, Fla., has spent the past 13 years building bridges across agency and jurisdictional lines previously deemed impassable, […]
We have business and we have government. For too many intents and purposes, we have nothing in between. This distinction has framed the great social debate for more than a century: capitalism versus socialism, markets versus controls, individualism versus collectivism, privatization versus nationalization, “free enterprise” versus “democracy of the proletariat.” The debate features no cooperatives, […]
We live in a shared-power world in which virtually every major public problem spills beyond the boundaries of any one organization or sector. Perhaps the most daunting challenge for leaders around the world today is thus how to bring people together from different backgrounds and different sectors (government, business, nonprofits, philanthropy, media, and communities) to […]
Disciplines such as political science, organizational psychology and sociology are becoming so specialized that, for scholars and lay persons alike, the study of leadership is now highly fractionated. Studies of US presidents in political science seldom make reference to the psychological literature of chief executive officers. Studies of school principals appear without attention to the […]
