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    Recent Leadership Articles

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    Cheating? Who, me?

    Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, is an insightful guy who recently performed some studies regarding cheating. (You'll need to scroll down to the 3rd article.) What he found…
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    Who cares? You should!

    Patrick Lencioni has got it right in his guest column in Business Week recently: There's no substitute for taking an active interest in the lives of your employees. The…
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    No substitute for Leadership Team

    I mentioned here before about the regular Sunday NY Times feature called the Corner Office, which summarizes conversations with various CEO's about leadership, lessons learned, interviewing techniques, etc. Here…
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    The North Bay Business Journal, a publication of the New York Times, is a weekly business newspaper which covers the North Bay area of San Francisco – from the…
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    Say no to conventional wisdom

    There's no better time to re-examine our assumptions about what works and what doesn't. How many times have we seen the power of unconventional thinking (quit using the tired…
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    More Accountabilty for Directors?

    Gretchen Morgenson, a NY Times columnist, reports that shareholders are speaking out more than ever as they seek to hold directors accountable. It's a welcome trend, as we know…
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    More tax? More government? NO!

    Thomas Friedman's Op-Ed in the Sunday NY Times entitled Real Men Tax Gas, makes sense in many ways, mostly in arguing that we have not proven to be very…
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    Million Dollar Ideas

    Forbes Magazine recently ran an intriguing article about eight different,  million-dollar businesses they discovered, each with a special niche. I love these articles because they highlight the different ways…
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    Why Planning is critical – and why you don’t do it!

    The need for planning is a common theme at Exkalibur and John Maxwell, a well-recognized source of leadership insights, has written extensively on this subject. He recently wrote about…
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