Dec 26 2013
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Last year the business world was abuzz as Yahoo! hired Marissa Mayer as their new CEO. Mayer has not disappointed those looking for things to write about. She has taken several bold steps in an effort to save Yahoo! from the ash heap of internet history. Since Mayer joined Yahoo! there have been …
Dec 18 2013
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I never thought I’d be using Microsoft for leadership lessons but here it is. Microsoft recently announced that they have jettisoned the stacked ranking system they used to evaluate employees. To briefly explain stacked rankings, supervisors are required to place their people in one of three categories. The top rank gets bonuses. The …
Dec 11 2013
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Our city’s school superintendent is no fan of the state Secretary of Education. That’s no secret, but the superintendent found his mind wondering (his words) at a board meeting so he took to Twitter and tweeted a message that compared the Secretary to farm animals. The lesson here seems obvious but it’s amazing …
Dec 04 2013
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Ah the Affordable Care Act. Obamacare. The program that would give all citizens access to affordable health care. All we would have to do is log on to this easy to use website and buy a policy. If we liked the policy we already had, we didn’t need to do anything. Wait a …
Nov 04 2013
As I write this the U.S. government has recently gone back to work after allowing itself to be shutdown; well sort of. During that period and for the weeks after there has been no shortage of commentators to tell us whose fault all this is. After all, finger pointing is one of the …
Jul 19 2013
Leadership Lessons from Abercrombie and Fitch Abercrombie and Fitch. Just saying the name will cause some to suffer severe anxiety. It seems that they are proud to be exclusionary. They only want to sell clothing to young people who have a specific body type and self-image. Sometimes they put messages on their clothes …
May 13 2013
Turn The Ship Around – A Review The military is a terrific leadership development environment. I firmly believe that our armed forces produce the best leaders of any organization anywhere. That doesn’t mean all military units are blessed with outstanding leadership and unfortunately, the military has its share of leadership failures as well. …
Jul 27 2010
There seem to be plenty of examples, both good and bad, of things leaders should do or not do. But, every now and then some particularly noteworthy examples are splashed across the headlines. The latest of these can be found in the international furor over Arizona’s new immigration law. For the next few …
Jul 13 2010
There were plenty of reasons not to be in Philadelphia in July of 1776. It was hot and muggy, and mosquitoes and horseflies filled the air. But, in spite of the discomfort, a small group gathered to discuss nothing less than separating, by force of arms, from the most powerful nation in the …
