Monday, December 21, 2009

Leadership IS Making Sausage

Sure, it was pretty ugly watching the Senate Democrats lurch their way to the 60 votes necessary to pass a health care bill this week. But Paul Krugman is sooooo wrong when he self-righteously derides the process as dysfunctional in his Monday NY Times column.

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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Economists Meet Machiavelli on Leadership

Leadership requires relentless optimism that you can change the world and hard-nosed realism about who and what you are dealing with and what it will take to make progress.

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Monday, September 7, 2009

Leadership as the Distribution of Loss

This is a big week for Obama. Vacation's over and so is the honeymoon. A lot is riding on his big health care speech to the Congress this week, not just about health care, but about the kind of President Obama will be.

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Sunday, August 30, 2009

Am I Racist

How do you answer that question?

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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Obama has not Closed the Deal on Health Care

Sorry, but for me, Obama has not closed the deal on health care. Real health care reform means both universal coverage and cost control. More people being covered is going to put more pressure on costs. And health care costs in the US are already way out of whack with the rest of the world.

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Tags: obama, leadership, healthcare

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Leadership as a Subversive Activity

When I edited a weekly alternative newspaper, called The Real Paper, I learned how hard it was to put out a single issue of a weekly publication with consistent high quality. That's why I am so in awe of how frequently The New Yorker meets that test

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Sunday, June 7, 2009

Empathy in Judging and Leading

Judging is not the same as leading.

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Monday, May 18, 2009

Leadership and Hard Choices: Obama and “Those” Pictures

On the personal side, check out a new website called The Stimulist. Went live last week. Subtitle is "The Optimist's Daily Brief" and the human spirit behind it is an up-and-coming rising star, journalist Carlos Watson.

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Tags: obama, adaptive leadership, guantanamo, cheney, national security

Friday, May 8, 2009

Reset, Italian Style - Essential and Expendable

First, a note about an opportunity for a New York City-based non-profit: We have just moved the main office of our firm, Cambridge Leadership Associates (CLA), from Cambridge to New York City. As part of our commitment to the community and as a recognition of the challenging times facing nonprofit organizations right now, we are offering ADAPT New York, a year long pro-bono consulting engagement to a selected NYC area nonprofit organization.

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Tags: courage, leadership, investment, reset, adaptive leadership, non-profit, risk, uncertainty, crisis

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Leadership: Self-righteousness and Self-doubt

I was surprised by how focused I was last week on Arlen Specter's decision to bolt the Republican Party and join the Democrats. Why should anyone care? Part of my response was simply personal. I still cling to my identity as a liberal Republican, a choice I made fifty years ago. Specter is "nice Jewish boy" like me, who has used the Republican Party and been used and abused by it for most of his adult life. His abrupt departure makes the already thin ranks of socially-liberal, fiscally conservative Republicans even smaller. I feel lonely.

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