He turned out to be a manager, not a leader
May 29th, 2009 // 7:39 am @ Jim // Comments Off
The title is a great quote. Managing in a stressful situation, if it is even possible today, is the very last thing a leader would do. This entry’s title is a direct quote from Geoff Colvin’s piece in Fortune (5/28/2009) “The Upside of the Downturn”, Adapted from his 2009 book of the same title. He’s [...]
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New Leadership at Ford
May 26th, 2009 // 7:40 am @ Jim // Comments Off
Just read “Fixing Up Ford” in Fortune (5/29/2009), profiling Alan Mulally, Ford’s CEO. Interesting to see what he has accomplished in just 2½ years at the helm of perhaps the last of Detroit’s Big 3, certainly the one that at this point looks likely to make it on their own terms, without government bailout $$. [...]
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Why Are We Still Studying Bosses?
May 18th, 2009 // 7:42 am @ Jim // Comments Off
In the June 2009 Harvard Business Review article “How to Be a Good Boss in a Bad Economy”, renown Stanford management professor Robert I. Sutton describes the current management vision of bosses this way. “Research confirms what many of us have long suspected: People who gain authority over others tend to become more self-centered and [...]
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One Owner’s Approach to Employees
May 17th, 2009 // 7:43 am @ Jim // Comments Off
Alice Waters founded Chez Panisse the famous Berkeley restaurant in 1971. They’ve been serving a full house pretty much every day since it opened. She has some interesting approaches to her employees. In an interview in the June 2009 Harvard Business Review (HBR, June 2009, pg 40), she responds to a question about how she [...]
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