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Ratan Tata: a shining example of business leadership in the third world
January 3, 2013People have often asked me to cite business leaders outside of Europe and the US whom I admire. I...
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken” – Oscar Wilde
December 26, 2012I love this quote from Oscar Wilde, who in my opinion said some of the funniest things of all...
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Reflections from Latin America, on leaders born and made
August 30, 2012The past few weeks have been a bit of a whirlwind, touring South America with little time to rest...
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Lewis and Clark, a historical example of stories of purpose
August 22, 2012Last night, while watching images of Mars on television, I began thinking about the concept of exploration in general....
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The most important of all soft skills: cultivating and maintaining individual relationships
July 23, 2012This week, I have been preparing an article for the British website trainingzone.co.uk, who have asked me to write...
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Designing better bosses for a new generation, continued
May 29, 2012Last time, we looked at two of the lessons from Google’s Project Oxygen, their effort to build better managers....
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Miserable at work?
April 2, 2012Lately, I seem to be running across, in a variety of contexts and forms, the observation that a high...