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		<title>Don&#8217;t Recruit Like the NFL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the NFL’s annual draft the worst teams select rookie players earlier. This is done so losing teams will get the best players and keep the NFL balanced and competitive. Subsequently top draft picks are highly coveted by teams. Quickly glancing at the draft orders of the past decade reveals this line of thought to be flawed. As it turns out the same teams are continually at the bottom of the league and at the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Avoiding Leadership Mistakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leading a company is hard enough, but starting one can be near impossible. Making mistakes both big and small are seemingly built into the process. Check out this article from The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Rosalind Resnick about the Top 10 Mistakes Start-Up Entrepreneurs Make and maybe, just maybe, you can make your start-up experience a little bit smoother.
Picture Credit: Reuben Whitehouse




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		<title>Legacy &amp; Leadership in the Middle East: It&#8217;s Come Down to This.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After listening to the speeches given by the President of the United States, the President of Egypt, the Prime Minister of Israel, the King of Jordan, and the President of Palestinian National Authority last night one cannot help but appreciate how often the word &#8216;leader&#8217; or &#8216;leadership&#8217; was used and in what capacity. It became apparent that the leaders directly involved, Netanyahu and Abbas, were caught in the same quagmire: they knew that time was ...]]></description>
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		<title>Leading Generation X, Y and Z</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s easy as you get older to just give up. Technology is confusing. It takes a great deal of energy to keep up with the almost hourly changes in how we communicate. So why bother? You might be saying to yourself: “Hey, we’ve been successful, so why not just keep doing what we’ve been doing for the last couple of decades?”
Well, the painful truth of it all is that before you know it, you’ll be ...]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Lie Detection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sean Lee thinks you should check out this interesting story about how you can tell when a CEO might be lying.
Sean Lee believes you’ll learn a thing or two about how the use of the third person on conference calls is not a great idea. Sean Lee hopes you have a nice day.
How Can You Tell If a CEO is Lying



Technorati Tags: ceo lying, leadership, leadership lie detection, lying


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		<title>What Tulips Can Teach Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Long before anyone ever heard of mortgage backed securities (MBS), collateralized debt obligations (CDO), credit default swaps (CDS), or the other financial instruments that have faltered during the current recession, there was semper augustus, also known as the tulip. To Calvinists of 17th century Holland, nothing was as desirable or valuable.
The exotic flowers, brought over from the Ottoman Empire, became the object of a national obsession. Entire markets were created just to trade tulips and ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Timing of Leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The more I think about leadership, the more I realize that one of the most essential elements is timing. Smart leaders, the best of leaders, have a sense of timing that is parallels an athlete or a ballerina. They have a sense of when to act and when to hold back. That, of course, is no easy trick.
The moment you lose your sense of timing your leadership is greatly handicapped, if not doomed.
Think of any ...]]></description>
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		<title>Shooting An Elephant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many, if not most of us, can remember a time in which we were goaded into doing something that we didn&#8217;t want to do. Whether under the influence of overt peer pressure or more subtle social constructs we often say or do things that when alone we often come to regret.
In the same vein, many leaders succumb to a similar line of thinking. They become trapped under restrictive roles placed upon them. As such, the ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Best Thing: Steve Jobs&#8217; Leadership Misstep</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks back on my way to work at around 8:30 in the morning, I walked by three or four AT&#38;T stores with long lines filled with eager souls waiting for the doors to open. Each one of these bright eyed and bushy tailed, hope-filled, patrons of tech had their heads buried in an iPhone 3 (or god forbid an original iPhone!). I am assuming once the imaginary gates of heaven opened the teaming ...]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media &amp; Promoting Your Message</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog has often been a forum to discuss how leaders can use technology to sell, promote, and push their message. Namely, we&#8217;ve been focusing on how social media can help leaders and organizations gain and sustain momentum.
When we look at the political landscape we often talk about multi-million dollar political campaigns, glossy advertising, and the dubious role of lobbyists. This is changing in the social technology age. Political campaigns are becoming more grounded and ...]]></description>
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