A.I.G.’s broken promises lead to a loss of talent. Hypocrisy has no place in leadership.
John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems Inc., talks to the Washington Post about how to earn trust and the future of collaboration. Great video.
Japan has a leadership deficit and problems are not being fixed.
Optimism, persistence, and loyalty are all key to leadership. Take a look at Steve Jobs and Bush Jr.
Woddy Allen on Bernie Madoff! Funny read.
How will the financial crisis …

The other night President Obama heralded persistence as one of his saving virtues.  There is a subtle truth in the notion that leadership requires persistence, and that we have not made persistence a critical trait that we reward.  Our culture is one where immediate gratification and short-term payoffs have become the modus operandi.  For the last twenty years, we have been rewarding people for short-term accomplishments, and they’ve come to expect immediate rewards.  This short-term …

For the last number of years, leadership has been reduced to charisma, prophetic vision, and grandiose ideas. Leadership is something that existed in the Olympian heights was in the private realm of the gods and the Masters of the Universe.
We looked back to history, and whether we looked at Lincoln, Washington, or Martin Luther King, we only saw the glow of their charisma and the radiance of their ideas.  What we didn’t see was that …

Years ago, in graduate school, I learned a very simple leadership lesson, and I learned it in the most peculiar setting: graduate seminars.  No matter how well prepared you were, no matter how fully you reviewed the literature, no matter how elegantly you crunched the numbers, someone else would always find a hole, that subtle little point you missed. Simply, people will work hard to “get-you.”
I learned quickly that in the world there is a …

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Silicon Valley’s individual-focused management policy is disappearing. Goodbye pony tails, Hello bureaucracy.
New Challenge for Leadership:

The Proactive Leaders Series aims at finding out how leaders throughout New York are handling the current economic crisis and the strategies they are using to organize their staff and push their agendas forward.
Andrew Doyle is a Senior Vice President and Head of Compensation, Benefits, and HRIS for OppenheimerFunds, Inc. Prior to joining OppenheimerFunds, he was most recently Head of Rewards and Information Services for the Global Wealth Management Group at Merrill Lynch.  …