You may not be a CEO, you can learn from from them and tweak the information to work for you.
First is an article written by Neeraj Bhargava, who co-founded India’s WNS Global Services and ended up CEO. It’s interesting because the focus his learning curve in an overheated market, how he hired an exceptional team and got out of their way.
Next is an interview with James J. Schiro, CEO of Zurich Financial Services (they didn’t crash and burn) focusing on what he’s learned, how he manages, how he uses social media and building the company’s culture.
CEOs jobs are safer than …read more

I am revolted by the lack of respect shown by so many of our Congressional (so-called) leaders.
Warning: If you don’t like rants feel free to navigate to a different (brilliant) post on this blog, because what follows is definitely a rant—in spite of the lack of excessive profanity and personal attacks.
I prefer to read the full text reprints of items such as Obama’s State of the Union speech because of my hearing, so, thankfully, I didn’t witness the disgusting performance of our sworn ‘leaders’ who chose to text and tweet throughout Obama’s speech.
And my anger has nothing to do with …read more