Archive | March, 2008

AMA Webcast Link

Monday, March 10, 2008

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Terry Seamon interviewed Stephen H. Baum in a webcast with more than 1600 participants this week. If you missed it, the archive of the webcast is now available in “OnDemand” format:  http://www.amanet.org/editorial/webcast/2008/ordinary-people-become-extraordinary-leaders.htm  The powerpoint that was used as a prop for the interview is also available in the archive.  We answered as many questions as [...]

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CEO Self-Dealing: Conrad’s Black Eye

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

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So famous, powerful, jet-setting news magnate Conrad Black has been convicted of fraud. And started serving his 6+year sentence today. Many CEOs shudder at what looms in his future – probably more litigation, a possible tell-all book by his wife, the loss of a friend of thirty years, exclusion from important places that were his [...]

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Medical Products From China Are Not Toys

Monday, March 3, 2008

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Are You Safe? Medical Products from China Aren’t Toys. Who is assuring your safety in the hospital when the products are “Made in China?” Toy companies have increased their testing of products in China after publicity about the number of children who got sick from lead or other poisons used in manufacture. Food companies and [...]

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What Made jack welch JACK WELCH

How Ordinary People Become
Extraordinary Leaders

by Stephen H. Baum (Random House)

Most leaders of American companies started out as ordinary people. What prepared them for the top job?

Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?

"Lessons for life about the core leadership traits of character, risk taking decisiveness and the ability to engage and inspire followers."
--Jim Clifton, CEO, The Gallup Organization

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