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, adaptive leadership, non-profit, reset, leadership, investment, uncertainty, risk, 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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Tags: risk, election, congress, republican

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Immelt’s GE: Reset’s Poster Child Jeffrey

Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, is fast becoming the poster child for Reset in the US corporate community.

My friend Jon Hoch from Connecticut was the first to point this out to me. He sees Immelt's GE (and Ford Motor Company as well) as looking at the current turmoil and uncertainty as an opportunity for adaptation and Reset, rather than hunkering down and waiting out the storm.

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Tags: courage, reset, uncertainty, risk

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Obama’s Leadership and the CIA memos

My favorite definition of leadership: leadership is about disappointing your own people at a rate they can absorb.

By that measure, President Barack Obama is now facing the toughest leadership test of his 100-day old Presidency. He made an Obama-like decision, looking forward and not backward, to not investigate or prosecute those responsible for carrying out the "enhanced interrogation" methods on al Queda suspects in 2002 and 2003.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Living Adaptive Leadership

Harder than I expected to stay focused on work while looking out over rolling farmland, gently ascending up to the town of Collevecchio here in the province of Lazio about an hour northeast of Rome. But here I am, following the Red Sox and the Celtics, reading newspapers online, and trying to stay current and make connections, as if the world would stop if I did not know what was going on.

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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Reset Lives…and Relives

A short post today before going off to Italy for 11 days of work and relaxation. Meeting there with several Italian companies and senior officials, through the good offices of our friends, clients and partners at Watson Wyatt. I am anxious to see if the Italian private sector is looking at the current reality differently than the US firms we have been doing business with in the past six months.

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Tags: uncertainty, risk

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