I was delighted when I was sent a free copy of Barack, Inc.: Winning Business Lessons of the Obama Campaign to review. Not just because I voted for him, but because this is a book about how to sell change, major change, to strangers and in doing so turn them into a community of supporters. That̵...

Another day, another leadership book. I sometimes wonder how far around the earth they would stretch if laid end to end. Most have viable lessons, useable by everyone, not just the person running the show. Many of the attitudes, actions and lessons learned and offered are similar, but each seeks a t...

Personalized recommendations have always been one of those technologies that look great on paper, but hardly ever work quite as well as advertised. This week, we got a chance to test my6sense, which takes your feed subscriptions and then recommends interesting posts based on your own reading habits....

Seneca is among the most well-known Stoic philosophers. He is also rightly considered a Grammarian — one who attempts to discern, organize, and elucidate the basic principles at the heart of the human condition. I have just started his first volume of Moral Essays. I decided to read Seneca because...

Post from Leadership Turn Image credit: jensimon7 Bridget from Biz Chicks Rule was surprised that I don’t consider politicains leaders since “they tell us their vision and lay a path of guidance to show how we’re going to get there?” To me, the ability to articulate a vision and ...

Justin Menkes’ Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have shines a hard light on what sets executives apart. Why does one show brilliant insight while another moves at normal levels and yet another badly blows it? Menkes makes a case that it is intelligence and the resulting cognitive...