Once in awhile, an article in the press catches my eye that shows in some world other than business my leadership hypotheses have broad application: So many companies are missing the boat by having far too few female executives in senior positions. Consider Lt. Cdr. Sarah West, the first woman in 500 years of Royal [...]
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
You may or may not be a Steve Jobs fan because of some of his personal history. But what he has done with Apple after returning to the fold is simply amazing. And he has an understandably large following of employees and customers. What happened? Randall Stross has captured the answer in his article: What [...]
Sunday, February 7, 2010
SUPERBOWL CEO (Part One) No matter who wins the Super Bowl, we will all be treated to a demonstration of skills that any CEO (or leader for that matter) finds enviable. Peyton Manning’s real-time read of the structure and intent of the defense, consideration of options, selection of pass receiver and intentional arc of the [...]
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
On January 31, 2008 I wrote about the sub-prime mess predicting the formation of the IPA, the investor protection agency (IPA sounded more interesting than CPA, though I believed consumer protection would be in its charter). I feared that a significant number of powerful CEOs intolerant of their own risk-management professionals would bring regulation upon [...]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
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