I am revolted by the lack of respect shown by so many of our Congressional (so-called) leaders. Warning: If you don’t like rants feel free to navigate to a different (brilliant) post on this blog, because what follows is definitely a rant—in spite of the lack of excessive profanity and perso...

How much longer do you think it will take corporate Earth to get off their terrified, or comfortable, collective asses and embrace a real, live, authentic, proven solution to most of their problems? Jaideep C Prabhu, Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise at Judge Business Scho...

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...

Just one quote today—one that’s depressing and sad and makes me very angry. In a speech in 1962 then-President John F. Kennedy said “The American people will find it hard to accept a situation in which a tiny handful of steel executives whose pursuit of private power and profit exceeds...

Egoship. I doubt that I coined the term, but I did think of it independently. It’s been popping into my head for a number of years now as I read stories of astronomical pay packages for business leaders. It didn’t take a business guru to start noticing that along with those salaries seem...

It seems that every time the leader of a corporation-in-trouble replies to the question, “What happened…?” the answer is that a ‘perfect storm’ of factors caused the problems. Steven Pearlstein offers some great comments on this attitude, but it was what he said near th...

Last month I wrote an article linking to a study at Harvard on the dangers of hiring based solely on experience. On a different, and seemingly unconnected subject, everyone has read and heard the term ‘risk’ and ‘risk assessment’ in conjunction with our current economic hell ...

Good grief, will the guys ever learn to keep their pants zipped? Eliot Sptizer is just the latest in a long line political and business biggies to be ousted over sex actions of one kind or another. I’m also wondering how many other patrons of this current sting will be outed. If he’s the...