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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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Posted by Gregory Maher on 6:48 PM | Add the first comment!
Tags: obama, adaptive leadership, cheney, guantanamo, 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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Posted by Marty Linsky on 1:13 PM | 3 Comments
Tags: adaptive leadership, leadership, courage, reset, non-profit, investment, uncertainty, risk, crisis

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Leadership and Experiments

In David Sanger's News Analysis in the NYT on Saturday, an anonymous person, described by Sanger as "a member of the Obama foreign policy team" was quoted as saying "there's going to be no time for experimentation."

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Posted by Marty Linsky on 7:13 AM | 1 Comments
Tags: obama, clinton, adaptive leadership, experimentation, geithner

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Leadership and Passion

Much has been made of Barak Obama's coolness under fire, his capacity for staying calm when attacked, rising above the fray, distancing himself, what we call Getting on the Balcony.

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Posted by Marty Linsky on 7:08 AM | 2 Comments
Tags: obama, adaptive leadership, biden, emotion, politics, dukakis, passion

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, adaptive leadership, courage, palin, bailout, politics

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.

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Posted by Marty Linsky on 7:05 AM | Add the first comment!
Tags: obama, adaptive leadership, leadership, mccain, politics, bailout, congress, election, republican

Monday, September 29, 2008

What a Day for Leadership!

So, in the roll call vote 2/3 of the Republicans and 40% of the Democrats took the no-risk route and voted their politics today. So, predictably, Obama and McCain blamed each other and each other's party.

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Posted by Marty Linsky on 7:04 AM | Add the first comment!
Tags: obama, adaptive leadership, mccain, politics, bailout, election

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