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...

Can you imagine telling your boss that you deserve a raise because you come to work on time every day? Or that she shouldn’t fire you for poor performance because you tried really, really hard? Last week on Leadership’s Future a young man named Andrew started a conversation. During it he...

“Behind every successful woman there is an astonished man.” Last year I wrote about the global glass ceiling; today I have seven fascinating articles on corporate women. More of the same—or are things changing? Kids don’t think so; in fact they’re more pessimistic. “T...

The list of basic cultural IBBs prompted a phone call from a reader asking for more information on the duel career ladder. When we were done, he suggested that I put that information on the blog this week. Who am I to argue with a reader? I’m not an historian, but I think that the need for the...

I love it! I just read a great article called Leadership Malpractice . Not by the media or some external pundit, but by Harvard Public Leadership Lecturer Barbara Kellerman, author of Bad Leadership and Followership . What a terrific idea. Kellerman says that since “leadership is increasingly ...

Sadly, this is Wes’ last post; his heavy schedule and several new projects preclude him from continuing to write for Leadership Turn. Wes sends this message,  “Thank you all for visiting and reading my posts each Tuesday for the past several months.  I hope that you were challenged to ...

Post from Leadership Turn Image credit: jamesdusol To whom do you listen to when you want to innovate? Early adaptors? Hard-core users? Core market segment? If you do you may miss out. Last year I wrote two posts on the error of assumptions in innovation (here and here) focusing on a diverse set of ...

Post from Leadership Turn Image credit: edans “When asked if Google’s strategy would change as the economy heads into a likely recession, Schmidt replied: “What recession? Innovation has nothing to do with downturns. A hot product will sell just as well in a recession as it will in...

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...

Aside from tax rebates, has there really been strong economic advances under the Bush Administration?In its current issue, Business Week does a quick roundup of this so-called expansion, “The expansion almost certainly ended in 2007, seven years after the previous peak in 2000. Unfortunately, ...