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Why Obama shouldn’t step down from the Boy Scouts
There’s one thing no one seems to be mentioning in this debate.
Air Force relieves basic training commander over widening Lackland sex scandal
AUSTIN, Texas — The fallout from a sex scandal at Lackland Air Force Base widened Friday, when the military ousted the top commander over the basic training unit where investigators say dozens of female recruits were sexually assaulted or harassed by their male instructors.
Three lessons from the Mars landing
What if we could all experience a “seven minutes of terror” at work?
Research Round-up
Ask the Fed Coach
The threat of sequestration
As a federal leader, here’s how you can best manage while the cloud of budget cuts looms.
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- Komen’s right move at the wrong time
- The leadership challenge, 25 years later
- How Romney should pick his VP
- Three lessons from the Mars landing
- Buying back Best Buy?
- How to make a smooth entry into the White House
- Does Chick-fil-A risk turning off young employees?
- Lessons from a Twitter #fail
- Why Bill Clinton is the best choice for the convention
- Jim Yong Kim needs to change the World Bank
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Soccer’s other VIP
Pia Sundhage’s coaching is just as crucial to the team’s success as Hope Solo’s goalkeeping.
Chick-fil-A bites into debate on gay marriage
Reaction to President Dan Cathy’s comments have been fierce and swift.
Attached a Nicolas Cage photo instead of your resume?
So, this happened. Here’s what not to do next.
Jim Yong Kim needs to change the World Bank
Kim will soon come face to face with the World Bank’s culture of economists. If we’re lucky, it won’t be pretty.
How to clear your inbox, make decisions and generally get things done
“When you most need to plan is when you least feel like you have time to do it.”
Great summer leadership reads
Here are five books to add to your packing list that offer new leadership ideas, tools and techniques.
Crazy data point of the day
See how much CEO pay versus worker pay has grown over the past few decades.
Killing employees’ work life
In studying what makes people happy at work, we also learned a lot about misery.
The Zen of Woody Allen
The most surprising thing I’ve learned about Woody Allen after making a documentary on him?
Rolodex that redefined power
You’ve probably never heard of Pattie Sellers. But Warren Buffett has. And Oprah Winfrey.
A love note to the workaholic
OPINION | Pressure to achieve on the job may cost us the social vulnerability that is key to romance.
Mr. Schmidt goes to Washington
Google’s chairman and former CEO reflects on his first time testifying before Congress, and what Washington does and doesn’t understand about Silicon Valley.
Video: Jim Kouzes on zebras
The leadership author on lessons he’s learned.
On Md. gambling and Arlington highway construction, zealots misguided
When the gaming industry or politicians argue that gambling would be a big new source of revenue for the state, or that it would spur economic development or — in the case of Maryland — that it would save the horse-racing industry, the reality rarely lives up to the promise.”
Caterpillar to unions: Drop dead
Thanks to globalization, declining union density and years of chipping away at labor laws, Caterpillar is set to prove that even unionized companies can operate as if they have no union at all.”
Shattering the myth on Glass-Steagall
Repeal of Glass-Steagall has become for the Democratic left what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are for the Republican right — a simple and facially plausible conspiracy theory about the crisis that reinforces what they already believed about financial markets and economic policy.”
Recent leadership roundtables
Post Leadership by Jena McGregor
The clothing effect
New research shows that wearing certain items of clothing could improve your performance.
Post Leadership by Jena McGregor
Setting your creativity clock
Are you a night person? A morning person? New research finds you’re most creative at a different hour than you’d think.
Post Leadership by Jena McGregor
Goldman Sachs and the fantasy job exit
When someone heads for the exit so publicly, it seems to tap a collective need to vent about our jobs.
Leadership Books
Higher Ambition
The authors interviewed 36 successful CEOs who exemplify higher-ambition leadership.
CEO Priorities
Neil Giarratana offers useful, if fairly elementary, advice on how to deal with the issues that confront a new CEO.
TouchPoints
A look at those seemingly innocuous but quite powerful interpersonal events that pepper the daily lives of corporate leaders.
Employees First, Customers Second
Concentrating on your staff and how they can contribute to your business is the best method for ensuring continued success.
Q&As;
- Leadership author Geoff Smart
- FERC’s Jon Wellinghoff
- Department of Education’sJoanne Weiss
- Department of Agriculture’s Elisabeth Hagen
- Small Business Administration’s Marie Johns
- Department of Veterans Affairs’ Peter Levin
- GovLoop’s Steve Ressler
- CPSC’s Inez Moore Tenenbaum
- USTDA’s Leocadia Zak
- Naval Sea System Command’s Brian Persons
- US Fish and Wildlife Services’ Daniel Ashe
- FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg
- NASA’s Patrick Scheuermann
- Department of Energy’s Michael Kane
- FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz
- GPO CEO Davita Vance-Cooks
- National Science Foundation’s Subra Suresh
- Baylor basketball coach Kim Mulkey
- Google Chairman Eric Schmidt
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