Leadership Turn

April 5th, 2008

US Healthcare leadership oxymoron 11: a question for you

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As most of you know I’ve been writing a series on healthcare, linking to articles detailing the actions of doctors/healthcare professionals, insurance companies and financial institutions. What’s ahppening as opposed to political retoric of what should happen.
But last night I got to thinking.
The stuff the artilces describe isn’t […]

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February 10th, 2008

Quote day at Leadership Turn

I’m always looking for a way to have some fun with Leadership Turn, especially if I can involve you. Here’s what I came up with.
Every Sunday I post three off-beat quotes (6 AM, noon, and 4 PM Eastern Time) from famous people or media and you respond with another strange quote either from the same […]

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February 2nd, 2008

Sue-happy stupid

The US is considered the most litigious society in the world. I used to wonder if the level of bad judgment/selfishness/ greed/immoral/stupid/etc., reasoning behind many lawsuits here was also found in other countries, then I realized that people are people so they probably were.I never researched the question (it didn’t warrant the time), but a […]

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January 27th, 2008

Is Wal-Mart a leader in hypocrisy and social irresponsibility?

OKaaaaaaaay. Here’s Wal-Mart as white knight riding forth to save the masses and bring relief to the environment and health care crisis.Wal-Mart is positioning itself as a do-the-right-thing leader. In a speech yesterday “…president and CEO Lee Scott today said the company would continue to demonstrate leadership and work for change on major issues important […]

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January 18th, 2008

Procrastination contest

Background: Jim Gordon, who writes BossHatch, is a twenty-something who actually enjoys talking on the phone (I love talking on the phone:) and I really enjoy our conversations. I also love Jim since he recently took pity on me and kindly designed a new logo for Leadership Turn (launching soon—I hope).
Jim and I were having […]

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January 17th, 2008

Leadership training sans leaders

I was fooling around with Google last night, reading about equine-guided leadership (leadership a la the Horse Whisperer) and plugged in “different kinds of leadership training” to see what would turn up. That search term yielded 5,600,000 results, whereas “how to write a resume” yielded only 1,200,000. Somehow, I expected the opposite results.
With so many […]

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January 4th, 2008

You’ll always be in a box

I’ve always believed that boxes get a bad rap and that understanding them is the key to enhancing your creativity.During a conversation on changing the culture in his company, a CEO said, “It’s hard to think about getting outside of the box, because sometimes I forget the box is there.” Don’t we all.
But that’s OK. […]

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December 11th, 2007

Apparently religion doesn’t mean ethics

After I wrote my post yesterday I got to thinking that there’s a major disconnect going on. Here’s why:

As mentioned yesterday, the 2007 National Business Ethics Survey® found that “Over the past year, more than half (56 percent) of employees surveyed had personally observed violations of company ethics standards, policy, or the law. Many […]

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November 30th, 2007

Are you smarter than a 6 month old?

We choose whom to hire/follow/marry/date/befriend—or not.
Some of those choices work out and some don’t, but it’s when we choose someone who’s flawed, who just isn’t nice, that often bothers us the most. How could we have missed it—it always seems so obvious after the fact—and we end up wondering why our social judgment is so […]

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November 9th, 2007

Two kinds of followers

In general, followers fall into two categories—thinking and unthinking.All of us have issue-specific litmus tests and look for a general comfort level with other followers.
Thinking followers usually have a broader definition of comfort, critically evaluate individual ideas and attitudes, as opposed to blind across-the-board acceptance, and are more willing to consider compromises. They often challenge […]

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