Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Campaign Fiction: Autonomy & Leadership

Leadership often means helping individuals and groups face hard truths. There is no harder truth than understanding our beloved sense of autonomy is a merely an illusion.

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Chief Justice Roberts: Disappointing His People at a Rate They Can Absorb

His decision embodies one of our favorite definitions of leadership: disappointing your own people at a rate they can absorb.

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Friday, March 30, 2012

Cush(ion)ing the Casualties

Obama's energy politics in Cushing, Oklahoma.

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Monday, February 27, 2012

Leadership & Authority

Deresiewicz blasts a Grand Canyon size hole in the common conflation of exercising leadership and exercising authority, with the illusion that having a big job has anything to do with being a leader.

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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

The Adaptation Buzz

In a time of uncertainty and rapid change, the qualities required to lead are different than what most of us have experienced for most of our lives.

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Occupy Wall Street is going nowhere without leadership

(CNN) - I would not take anything away from the success of Occupy Wall Street in bringing so many people together in Lower Manhattan and elsewhere. It is quite an accomplishment. Notwithstanding what has happened so far, the hard work of leadership has not yet begun. It is relatively easy to get disempowered, angry, frustrated people together to rail against a wide range of enemies and scapegoats. It is quite another to effect change.

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Thursday, October 6, 2011

MONEYBALL: ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP IN ACTION

I saw Moneyball Sunday...I never expected the movie to be anything more than cinematic eye candy. It turns out to be as good an example I’ve ever seen of adaptive leadership at work.

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Friday, September 2, 2011

Leadership Lessons from the Campaign Trail Field – On Empty Suits and Full Body Engagement

Romney’s well documented ability to slip and slide to wherever his political ambitions require him to be is well understood. There are some advantages to that. The country needs people in high office who are not committed to positions they will later regret when they come face-to-face with reality instead of campaigns. We need politicians who have the courage to learn and adapt, not hold on rigidly to positions and promises and pledges that sounded good on the campaign trail but get in the way of governing.

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Thursday, August 4, 2011

The System Worked

Yes, it was ugly and messy, like watching sausage being made, as the cliché goes. Nevertheless, not only did the system work, but it worked the way it was designed to work. With its two year terms, the House of Representatives is designed to be, well, representative, and to reflect popular will. The Senate is designed to be a little more statesmanlike, to take a somewhat longer view. Both performed as scripted. The deadlock and stalemate that was so painful to watch was reflective of the country as a whole. These are tough issues. Everyone is making their best guess. The country has never been in this spot before and no one knows the right answer. The new debt agreement is just an experiment, not a solution, at best a step forward in addressing the myriad of problems challenging the US and global economies.

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Where Rupert Murdoch’s blame ends and ours begins

This piece is part of a leadership roundtable on Rupert Murdoch’s handling of the News Corp. scandal — with opinion pieces by Tuck School of Business Professor Paul A. Argenti, London Business School Dean Sir Andrew Likierman, and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Marty Linsky.

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