Page 1 of 1 pages

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.

Read More

Posted by Gregory Maher on 9:48 PM | Add the first comment!
Tags: obama, leadership, healthcare

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.

Read More

Posted by Marty Linsky on 4:13 PM | 3 Comments
Tags: courage, adaptive leadership, non-profit, reset, leadership, investment, uncertainty, risk, crisis

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.

Read More

Posted by Marty Linsky on 7:02 PM | 3 Comments
Tags: obama, courage, leadership, emotion, politics, geithner, congress, republican

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.

Read More

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

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

The Dangers of Leadership

For better or worse, the current crisis is a terrific leadership learning laboratory. But first, check out David Leonhardt's column in Wednesday's NY Times today. He does a much better job than I did last week of laying out the spend-or-save dilemma. The headline? Spend to save. Lots of homey examples. The one I like the best is to buy a seltzer-making machine.

Read More

Posted by Marty Linsky on 4:03 PM | Add the first comment!
Tags: leadership, crisis

Thursday, January 15, 2009

In Praise of Selfishness - Part II

Besides taking care of yourself, leadership requires selfishness in another, very different way. You have to believe in what you are doing, totally committed to your purpose, absorbed by it, willing to sacrifice other important, but not as important purposes in its behalf.

Read More

Posted by Marty Linsky on 10:15 AM | Add the first comment!
Tags: leadership

Sunday, January 11, 2009

In Praise of Selfishness as a Leadership Behavior - Part I

On the many friends and acquaintances who have been cut down by cancer, three good friends, two women and a man, stand out because they died fairly close in time to one another, relatively young, and sharing a way of being in the world which is pretty uncommon in my experience.

Read More

Posted by Marty Linsky on 10:13 AM | 2 Comments
Tags: obama, leadership, selfishness

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Obama is already delivering losses

y favorite definition of leadership, the one I am really addicted to, is that leadership is disappointing your own people at a rate they can absorb.

Read More

Posted by Marty Linsky on 10:11 AM | 1 Comments
Tags: obama, clinton, leadership, emmanuel

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Leadership in a Crisis

In a crisis, what we WANT from people who are running the show is just two things. Be present and feel our pain. George W. Bush is not particularly good at either, but he has been better at it in the economic current crisis than he was after Katrina or 9/11. Rudy Giuliani is the master.

Read More

Posted by Marty Linsky on 10:07 AM | Add the first comment!
Tags: leadership, bailout, crisis, rudy giuliani, gordon brown

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Obama and the race vote…..

Big conversation topic these days among my liberal friends is about what "those people" will do when they get into the privacy of the voting booth and no one else will know if they cannot vote for an African-American for President. I became a Republican in college because I thought my liberal Democratic friends were the least tolerant people I had ever met.

Read More

Posted by Marty Linsky on 10:05 AM | Add the first comment!
Tags: obama, adaptive leadership, leadership, mccain, politics, bailout, election, congress, republican

Page 1 of 1 pages