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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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Posted by Marty Linsky on 1:13 PM | 3 Comments
Tags: courage, leadership, reset, investment, adaptive leadership, non-profit, uncertainty, risk, crisis

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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Posted by Marty Linsky on 2:20 PM | 2 Comments
Tags: courage, reset, uncertainty, risk

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Reset Partisanship and Anger…..

Lots of anger out there. In the past days, I have received missives from four good friends of different ages, backgrounds, experience and communities (although all US citizens). They are all liberal Democrats and early Obama supporters, and all four of them sent angry, even furious diatribes against right-wing politicians, commentators, and George W. Bush.

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Posted by Marty Linsky on 4:02 PM | 3 Comments
Tags: obama, courage, leadership, politics, emotion, republican, geithner, congress

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Crime and Punishment

Watching Madoff being taken away in handcuffs last week, I was thinking about crime and punishment, and whether those who recklessly led us into the current financial mess ought to share more of the pain, whether or not they committed a crime.

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Posted by Marty Linsky on 11:48 AM | 2 Comments
Tags: courage, leadership, reset, risk, crime

Friday, October 3, 2008

Scapegoating and the Bailout Blame Game

Palin's repeated references last night to "Wall Street greed and corruption" was just the latest in a string of diversionary finger-pointing and blaming.

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Posted by Gregory Maher on 7:05 AM | Add the first comment!
Tags: obama, courage, palin, adaptive leadership, politics, bailout

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