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The world tends toward continuums. Hot and cold have warm and cool along the way. Big and small have all manner of magnitude in the middle. Even black and white have hues between. Winter, spring, summer, and fall represent varying points along a gradual scale marking...The Return of the Larger than Life Leader
Inevitably and rightly so, a New Year summons reflection. What happened, why it happened, and what can be done about it will be a prevalent theme. The focus is typically on specific events, as specific events allow for clear diagnoses, prognoses, and prescriptions....Teaching Children why Failure MUST be an Option
Aversion to failure may be rooted in what we’re taught as youngsters.Can Millennials Be Led?
Frustrated by the young-ish workforce? The Millennials? They’re the future. The good news is that they want to do good and are willing to work hard.How to Bring the Outdoor Expedition to Indoor Life?
Outdoor experiences are profound, but how can their impact be made your new normal? Here’s some sound and simple and sage advice.4 Self-Improvement Myths That May Be Holding You Back
Advice on how to improve one’s self is everywhere. It accounts for about 2.5% of all book sales in the United States. Add in speeches, training programs, TV programs, online-products, coaches, yoga, and the like, self-help is a $10 billion industry per year, and...Leading Toward Superior Performance
Want to know why people choose to follow? Here’s the data.Why Do CEOs Like Chipotle’s Overstay Their Welcome?
Chief executives are expected to instinctively know how to lead and when to leave their company. Balancing the tension between leading and leaving requires an executive who has deep empathy of workplace rhythms and a showman’s instinct for timing.How Acting Perfect Undermines Your Ability to Lead
We like our leaders flawed, just like we like ourselves.Building the Cannabis Dream Team: Better People, Better Training, Better Experience, Better Business
The cannabis industry, worth an estimated $7.2 billion in 2016, precariously straddles the recreational and medicinal market. To balance itself, the industry must put a premium on talent management.How to Manage Cannabis Business Leadership In An Increasingly Brighter Spotlight
A critical element of successful leadership is appreciating the spotlight. Leaders are in the spotlight. People are watching them. Closely. Assiduously. They’re the subject of the floodlights’ glare. The aperture is set for widest exposure where all images are...Gimme Shelter: Soaked by Organizational Change
Where you stand when times are turbulent determines where you are when times calm.Cause Célèbre? The Question of Women CEO Compensation
Women CEOs need to be vigilant about their impact.Ford Motors Makes an Inventive Leadership Choice
From office furniture to automobiles? New Ford CEO Jim Hackett has what it takes.A State of Organizational Grace
The two most difficult sentences to utter are “I am sorry” and “You are forgiven.”Like a Boss: Obama as the CEO during Transition
President Barack Obama is traveling a far more benevolent path to the presidency of Donald J. Trump than his fellow Democrats. The president’s pubic mood is one marked by grace and acceptance, while his followers promise to follow Dylan Thomas’ admonition to “not go...Why Renovations have Bypassed Doctoral Program, and What to do about it
Introduction Business schools have successfully remade themselves to be more aligned with the modern business climate. The BBA and MBA are entirely different degrees than they were just a few decades ago. But one business school degree—the PhD—has largely escaped...Reconciling The Practice With The Business of Law
The US legal industry enjoyed double digit growth for five decades until the Great Recession of 2008, when demand for services dropped by 5% and outside counsel spending declined by 11%. It was a serious crisis that led firms to forego annual hourly billable rates...Cause Célèbre? The Unintended Consequences of Highly Paid Women CEO
A recent study by Equilar—an executive compensation firm—reported that female CEOs were better compensated than male CEOs. Of 341 responses from S&P 500 companies, the 17 female CEOS made almost $8M more than the 324 males CEOs. Although the number of female CEOs...Learning from Adversity: One Obstacle at a Time
Adversity happens. Our instinct in the workplace when adversity does arrive is to deny its importance, attribute it to a person or event outside of our control, or, even better, to ignore it. Frustration and failure are unavoidable, so the question for us is what can...The Indispensability Syndrome
Making plans for summer vacation? You’re probably wondering whether you’re too busy to take a week off from work. Maybe you’re thinking that you can, but only if the resort has WiFi. Likely the prospect of being away from the office makes you a bit jittery....Balance of Business and Law
The following was authored by Julia Zemnick Gill, Winner of the 2015 GWSB Student Leadership Essay Competition Law firms have experienced excruciating growing pains over the past decade. The legal industry is one of the largest and most profitable industries in...Pathfinding the Future of Business Schools
By James Bailey (This is the text of a speech delivered to the Conference of Management and Executive Development Programs) It’s a shame that the famed American writer, James Fenimore Cooper, was born about 200 years too early. In his famous Leatherstocking series,...Why the Heroes?
Heroes have been held out as the best of us throughout recorded history. All cultures commit to profiling and proclaiming them. Their stories are our past, present, and future, told through the protagonist’s lens. We research, record, and relate them for a reason....The Stress, the Switch, and the Sources of Renewal
Imagine the eighteen months of General Motors CEO Mary Barra’s life. In her short tenure, GM will have recalled more than 30 million automobiles worldwide. Her firm is besieged by allegations of a caustic culture of carelessness, dysfunctional bureaucracy, warped...Video Lessons
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