Tag: business
group name: leadership
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June 05, 2006 07:03 AM EDT --
If the facts bear out what has already been widely reported about the massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines in the village of Haditha, it will be an atrocity on a par with the horrors of Abu Ghraib . . . more
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June 02, 2006 05:55 AM EDT --
The nation's shareholders are finally beginning to get restive over the outrageous pay packages being snaffled by top executives. According to one survey, the average CEO got a 30 percent pay raise . . . more
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June 06, 2006 05:23 AM EDT --
How many of your employees do you think are interested in leaving their jobs? Shocking though it may be, more than half (51 percent) of U.S. workers polled in a national survey said they wanted to dash . . . more
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June 09, 2006 06:39 AM EDT --
As the coalition of the willing and, indeed, the whole civilized world, celebrates the death of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and seven aides, including the infamous spiritual adviser, Sheik . . . more
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June 20, 2006 06:46 AM EDT --
The human species being stunningly fallible, it's surely unrealistic to expect any man or woman to live up to each and every rule on a list that runs to 14 pages. But if you are the one who concocted . . . more
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June 07, 2006 08:07 AM EDT --
The burdens of the presidency are huge. No one could ever say otherwise. Why, the headlines of just the past few days are overwhelming: The allegedly U.S.-backed warlords in Somalia have been defeated . . . more
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June 15, 2006 05:48 AM EDT --
News that the Bush administration has tapped Lt. General James Conway to head up the Marine Corps is welcome, indeed -- particularly in light of the Haditha massacre, which, as I said in my post of June . . . more
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July 22, 2006 07:41 AM EDT --
In its latest rationale for going to war in Iraq, the Bush administration tells us that spreading democracy in the Middle East will bring peace to that fermenting cauldron of conflict. But our leaders . . . more
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June 23, 2006 04:55 AM EDT --
On the whole, business doesn't have a great record of timely exits. Last week's announcement by Bill Gates that he plans on giving up day-to-day responsibilities at Microsoft to spend time . . . more
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July 14, 2006 06:07 AM EDT --
George W. Bush's imperial presidency now threatens to junk the Constitution.
Many true conservatives are just as uneasy as liberal Democrats over the President's claims that he can ignore the . . . more
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May 26, 2006 05:51 AM EDT --
Almost by definition, the best leaders question prevailing wisdom. If they are told something "can't" or "shouldn't" be done, they ask why not.
Who today, for example, . . . more
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June 01, 2006 09:24 AM EDT --
I'm both flattered and pleased to help moderate Gather's forum on leadership. For the last five years, I have had the privilege of speaking on the subject of leadership to companies and organizations . . . more
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July 20, 2006 12:47 PM EDT --
Relentless determination is rare, if only because few leaders have the grit to keep pursuing an elusive goal. Most of us think it is no fun to feel futile, much less appear foolish in the world's eyes. . . . more
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August 15, 2006 10:16 AM EDT --
Crises often seem to emerge full-blown in our consciousness. We turn on the television to watch the evening news, or scan the front page of the newspaper, only to be broadsided with the shocking details . . . more
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June 06, 2006 04:28 PM EDT --
There have been many pop articles (and so called management experts) over the years suggesting that traditional management is wrong, ineffective, dictatorial, "a thing of the past". Perhaps . . . more
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June 14, 2006 05:30 AM EDT --
Sign on to the White House home page www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/economy, and you'll be treated to a dazzling display of seemingly fabulous economic news. "President Bush's actions are moving . . . more
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July 07, 2006 06:58 AM EDT --
This week's sudden death of Kenneth L. Lay, whose name will forever symbolize the Enron scandal, will not be the end of that tragic story. But it is an occasion for all of us who would be leaders to . . . more
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July 27, 2006 08:11 AM EDT --
After the writing of the Constitution, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin whether the country was to be a republic or a monarchy. "A republic," said Franklin, "if you can keep it." . . . more
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August 17, 2006 09:28 AM EDT --
Something is seriously wrong in the boardrooms and executive suites in this country. Our leaders are failing us. While dedicated American men and women are putting their lives at risk in the Middle East, . . . more
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June 19, 2006 07:24 AM EDT --
The British are coming, only this time, it may be all to the good -- at least for those of us who strongly believe that corporate America should pay more attention to its shareholders and less money . . . more
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