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Imagining the Future of Leadership
HBS Publishing is now hosting a blog called Imagining the Future of Leadership, which includes a six-week series on how leadership might look in the future. This week’s focus: leaders for the future, where I posted on Suze Orman: Defying the Standards/Empathy Tradeoff.
A Reason to Believe
In today’s column David Brooks tells a riveting story about rapid change in the culture and mindset of the U.S. Army, in response to bad news coming back from the Iraq War. The story itself is fascinating — he chronicles …
Leadership at Home
Elizabeth Weil – who is now working on a “memoir about marriage improvement” called No Cheating, No Dying – wrote a riveting piece for the New York Times Magazine about trying to improve her own relatively functional marriage. The project …
The Patient Has a Soul
The title is from the opening pages of the Cleveland Clinic’s Annual Report, which quotes Dr. Rene Favaloro: ”the patient is not only an illness, he has a soul.” I came across the quote as I watched my colleague, Ananth Raman, teach …
Showing Up
One of the most powerful acts of leadership is often the easiest to overlook: the decision to remain standing. As my obsession with Lincoln continues, I find that I’m most moved by his ability to simply endure. Lincoln revealed a …
The Unstable Pack Leader
Amy Wallace of the NY Times just offered up a rambling, poetic tribute to Cesar Millan, better known as the “Dog Whisperer,” for the NY Times business section. Millan has an extraordinary personal story. He was a poor kid from …
Non-Verbal Leadership
In a recent article in the NYTimes, Linda Hudson described her first day on her job after being promoted to president at General Dynamics: … I went out and bought my new fancy suits to wear to work and so on. And …
On Glenn Beck
If you ever wonder how much exposure matters in your ability to influence people, Glenn Beck is as pure an experiment as you’ll find on the public stage. Beck is all heart, no head. As much as he’s attacked for …
Hidden Risks of Crisis Leadership
The NYT’s Adam Bryant delivered an interesting interview with Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs. Blankfein offers some suggestions for leading in a crisis, which can be summarized as keep talking, to everyone, both to better inform your choices and to …
Feedback and Trust
I want to revisit your discussion on feedback, Frances, because I think the topic often gets lost in the race to do things that feel more important organizationally. The ability and willingness to communicate honestly is often framed as a …