From the same guy who wrote the health care interview in my post from a few moments ago comes this equally good article (or book review) about being a good boss. In addition to the book Mr. May recommends, I’d suggest reading my favorite three. The first is one I finished not too long ago, The […]

Blake Hurst is a farmer in Missouri who got fed up with the nonsense authors such as Michael Pollan were spewing in attacking modern farming practices.  His article in The American, “The Omnivore’s Delusion:  Against the Agri-intellectuals,” was a breath of fresh air in its countering of the drivel of the “self-appointed experts.”  A follow-up […]

Okay, it’s a “credit where credit’s due” moment for me.  Thomas Friedman’s column yesterday was about how the ChiComs will have to allow social freedoms or will see the progress their country has made come to a halt.  This is from a guy who’s spilled lots of ink expressing his envy of the ability of those very […]

I’m going to have to check out Steven Johnson’s books — if they’re anything like as good as his Wall Street Journal article, “The Genius of the Tinkerer,” I’m in for some great reading.  I sure didn’t know this, for example: More recently, a graduate student named Brent Constantz, working on a Ph.D. that explored […]

I’m a true believer that a leader must be willing to be the “bad guy” in the business world — especially as it relates to enforcing rules and upholding ethical standards.  But that being said, I think the point of this article is a good one — that being genuinely likeable is a huge asset in the business […]

I’ve done lots and lots of reading, and discussion with people at all levels of several organizations, on this topic.  In fact, I’m now declaring myself an expert on the subject. The concept of strategy is vital in aligning people in any organization on a direction for the future.  Indeed, I think the best definition of the term […]

This past week I took part in a study of great explorers in the context of leadership, including British South Pole explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott.  The key theme involving Scott was blaming various supposed shortcomings in his leadership style for his being beaten to the pole by Roald Amundsen, and for his team’s perishing […]

Peter Brabeck-Letmathe says corporate philanthropy is using other people’s money for your own charitable ends. Nobody can rationally argue that he’s wrong, any more than anyone had a cogent counter-argument to Milton Friedman when he made the same argument decades ago. Says a lot about our world that something so patently true and obvious is […]