As deputy CEO of Dubai Media and the youngest member of the United Arab Emirates parliament, Najla Al-Awadhi has quickly risen to prime leadership positions in a society that is still largely male-dominated. A graduate of the University of New Hampshire in the United States, she has been outspoken a...

Last week Toronto MP Joe Volpe was the first party member to publicly call for Dion’s resignation after the weak Liberal election result. Today Dion was man enough to admit his failings to sell Canadian’s on his platform of income tax cuts and taxes on pollution, “The Green Shift&#...

  PUTNEY ODEON -- The Olympics are still being missed in our house.  Couldn't they run all the time?  Especially when it's raining. There were two features in the news last week that I thought contrasted against the 'one world, one dream' vision that the Chinese were promoting.  ...

Change is the biggest constant in today’s business world. Even charities and educational organizations are finding that they need to constantly innovate not only to compete for donation dollars, clients, and members, but to remain relevant to the changing social landscape around them as well. But ...

At a time when the airline industry is under assault from skyrocketing fuel prices and a sluggish U.S. economy, it's hard to imagine that a talk by the president of the leading American carrier would not be dominated by discussions of job cutbacks, reduced routes and higher fares. But then there are...

Hardly a day goes by without yet another twist or turn in the credit crisis that has engulfed the U.S. financial system for more than a year. Media reports suggest that the world's biggest financial institutions have absorbed more than $300 billion in asset write-downs and credit losses even as home...

Newspapers aren't famous for their knowledge of management. But Jill Geisler, the management guru at the Poynter Institute, a news industry think tank and training ground, has put together a not-bad list of management books. For improving as a manager: "Understanding and Changing your Management Sty...

Post from Leadership Turn Image credit: cesstrelle74 Sadly, the United States has lost its lead in many areas to Europe, and it seems like another is in the process of falling. “Last week marked the 22nd anniversary of the glass ceiling’s entrance into our vernacular — a phrase whi...

It would be hard enough under any circumstances to become the first outsider named to lead a 161-year-old global conglomerate, but Peter Löscher faced a unique challenge last summer when he assumed the reins at Siemens AG -- the German-based engineering and healthcare giant. During a recent Wha...

In 2005, about two years after Autumn Bayles became the first chief information officer at Philadelphia-based Tasty Baking Company, a supply chain executive quit the company. "As a part of my technology work, I was very involved with that side of the operation," said Bayles, who was hired ...