Ford’s CEO – A 21st Century Leader
February 27th, 2010 // 5:14 pm @ Jim // No Comments
Who’d think that an engineer with great experience at Boeing would become such an amazing leader at Ford? But Alan Mulally has proven to be an exceptional leader by teaching the behemoth the company to focus. Here is a short, interesting interview with Mulally from the Wall Street Journal. Recently he went back to Seattle and gave a speech [...]
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“No one talks about their feelings anyway”
February 21st, 2010 // 9:47 am @ Jim // No Comments
It was back in 1974 when Jackson Browne wrote those lyrics in “The Late Show” on Late for the Sky, his third album. As the song came up this morning on Jackson Browne Radio on Pandora, it occurred to me Jackson’s lyrics are just as applicable today as they were back then: No one ever talks [...]
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What can we learn from the Cleveland Clinic?
February 18th, 2010 // 5:55 am @ Jim // No Comments
It’s the #1 hospital in the country for heart surgeries and has been for 15 years. A very informative interview format piece on Delos Cosgrove, MD, the CEO of the Clinic in the March 1, 2010 edition of Fortune. Apparently you gotta buy the print edition but it’s worth it for the interview of this straight-shooter! Digg [...]
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Survival of the Fittest? Maybe not, new research . . .
February 17th, 2010 // 7:26 am @ Jim // No Comments
by social scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, is challenging long-held beliefs that human beings are wired to be selfish. This article references several interesting research studies on the benefits of being compassionate and collaborative. One peices of research found that the more you give, the more respect you get. Another found that students [...]
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Hiring decisions
February 15th, 2010 // 3:03 pm @ Jim // No Comments
Adam Bryant is a deputy editor of the Business section of the New York Times. He does an almost weekly column called “Corner Office” in which he interviews CEOs of major companies. Great leadership ideas from great leaders including the interviews of Bobbi Brown (Bobbi Brown Cosmetics) and of Mark Pincus (Zynga) on hiring. Bobbi Brown: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/business/24corner.html Mark Pincus: [...]
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Harvard Business Review on Motivation
February 4th, 2010 // 1:00 pm @ Jim // No Comments
“What Really Motivates Workers” is item #1 in HBR‘s list of Breakthrough Ideas for 2010. (January – February issue) The most important factor they found affecting workers’ motivation was their having a sense that they were making progress toward their goal. ”When workers sense they are making headway, their drive to succeed is at its peak.” http://hbr.org/2010/01/the-hbr-list-breakthrough-ideas-for-2010/ar/1 Digg this [...]
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Multi-tasking really increases productivity, right? Wrong!
February 3rd, 2010 // 11:22 pm @ Jim // No Comments
A new study at Stanford University is trying to find the key that allows multi-taskers to do several things at once. So far, they haven’t found it. In fact, in all their research, they’ve found that people who prefer to do one thing at a time fare significantly better at all tasks. There is a [...]
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