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Leadership Turn

Archive for July 2008

July 31st, 2008

Is Wall Street killing our future?

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(CandidProf is chained and sleepless over his computer in order to meet a Friday publication deadline, he’ll return next week.)
Tuesday Wes Ball asked if Wall Street’s demands for shot-term performance undercut leadership performance; last November I wrote and When leaders can’t practice leadership and said,
“We live in […]

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July 30th, 2008

Wordless Wednesday: Wall Street self-regulation

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July 29th, 2008

Is Wall Street the enemy of leadership?

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By Wes Ball, author of The Alpha Factor – a revolutionary new look at what really creates market dominance and self-sustaining success. Read all of Wes’ posts here­.
Sam Walton made no bones about it.  He was not going to lose control of Wal-Mart to the stock market.  […]

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July 28th, 2008

Portrait OF a leader BY a leader

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I was unable to attend the Stanford Summit this year, so I prevailed on Emanio CEO and M3 Foundation founder KG Charles-Harris to go and share a story or two about the people he met.
From KG:
At the Stanford Summit I met a Lorenzo Carver, who impressed me […]

By Miki Saxon -- 2 comments

July 27th, 2008

Quotable quotes: baseball on business

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Ever notice how apropos a comment made about one thing is for something totally unrelated?
I found these quotes about baseball by baseball greats and laughed at how well they fit the current business climate.
“Finish last in your league and they call you Idiot. Finish last in medical […]

By Miki Saxon -- 6 comments

July 26th, 2008

Leading factors: stimulating “change hunger”

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Continuing last weeks conversation about change based on IBM’s The Enterprise of the Future.
Let’s start with the fact that change isn’t easy and well-managed change is even more difficult.
“CEO s rate their ability to manage change 22 percent lower than their expected need for it — a […]

By Miki Saxon -- 2 comments

July 25th, 2008

Vote/suggest a new tagline for Leadership Turn

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As long-term readers know, I’ve changed both the tagline and design of Leadership Turn since I took it over last year—unfortunately, I couldn’t change the name. I say that because neither I, nor anyone I’ve discussed it with, can figure out what it’s supposed to mean. But that’s OK, the world […]

By Miki Saxon -- 5 comments

July 24th, 2008

CandidProf: teaching is leading and leading means work

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CandidProf is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at a state university. He’ll be sharing his thoughts and experience teaching today’s students anonymously every Thursday—anonymously because that’s the only way he can write really candid posts. 
Last week I wrote about what is involved to be a good teacher. What […]

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July 23rd, 2008

Wordless Wednesday: leading a global business

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July 22nd, 2008

Starbucks proves that leadership can even overcome bad management

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By Wes Ball, author of The Alpha Factor – a revolutionary new look at what really creates market dominance and self-sustaining success. Read all of Wes’ posts here.
If you’re alive, you’ve probably been watching the drama being played out at Starbucks.  Hundreds of stores are slated to […]

By Miki Saxon -- 8 comments