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Recent Leadership Articles

Has the chicken come home to roost?

I wrote several columns in December last year, With Wall St. as Sideshow, Performance is Best Salary Guide, discussed the extraordinary exit strategies for Wall St. executives whose performance…

Capital Markets Corporate Governance Economy Leadership

What happened? What happens now?

Before we can even catch our breath, we learn that the Fed has bailed out AIG to the tune of $85B to forestall an even greater calamity in capital…

Capital Markets Economy Leadership

How to deal with unstable financial markets?

In my 35+ years, I have not seen a more dramatic day on Wall Street and the financial markets. Fundamental restructuring of the nation's leading investment banks leaves only…

Exkalibur – In the News Leadership Leadership Forum, The North Bay Business Journal

Cash is (still) King: Practical Strategies for Turbulent Times

Here is the newspaper ad that has been running weekly in the North Bay Business Journal to announce the upcoming event of The Leadership Forum. I will be moderating…

Corporate Governance

Do you think that there is more time spent on process and protocol than thinking and inquiring at a recent Board meeting? As you may know, the Conference Board…