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Feb 1, 2006
By:
Sander A. Flaum
Corporate leaders' short-sighted focus on EPS and analyst expectations leaves the US workforce far behind its international counterparts when it comes to cultivating innovation. It's time we stepped up to the plate.
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New leaders are judged by first impressions. Smart ones use their
Jan 1, 2006
By:
Sander A. Flaum, Jonathon Flaum
Leaders who are new on the job should get out of their nice offices and go sit with their direct reports. Sit with them in their spaces, over lunch or coffee—anyplace but your space. You want them to be completely comfortable.
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We need to celebrate selfless bravery, but will our culture let us? A debate.
Dec 1, 2005
By:
Sander A. Flaum, Jonathon Flaum
In an article for the New York Times, reporter Damien Cave pointed out how few heroes have been publicly recognized by the Administration in the current war. Despite the fact that there have been incredible acts of heroism and gutsy leadership on the ground of this Iraq war, the powers that be, for the most part, are calling no attention to it—at least no prime-time attention. Damien's most damning example came from Major Bruce Norton, a military historian and author of Encyclopedia of American Military Heroes, who recounted how a Marine recently received his Navy Cross, the second-highest military honor—not with ceremony and honor, but in the mail.
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If you want great minds and great spirits working for you, stop and ask yourself: Do those people perform just for money?
Oct 1, 2005
By:
Sander A. Flaum
There comes a point when people have enough stuff in their lives, but they can never have enough meaning. Leaders have to find opportunities for their eams to do more than turn the machine of profit.
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Good leaders need a streak of paranoia. Or do they? A father and son debate.
Aug 1, 2005
By:
Sander A. Flaum, Jonathon Flaum
Eyes in the Back of Your Head
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Sisyphus kept pushing a rock up a hill, but never got anywhere. Sound like anyone you know?
Jul 1, 2005
By:
Sander A. Flaum
We all remember the Greek myth about old King Sisyphus. In life, he was a trickster, but the gods got the last laugh in the afterlife by making it his fate to push a huge boulder up a mountain only to see it roll down just before reaching the summit—again and again for all eternity.
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Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saves leaders. When you're through learning and changing—you're dead.
Jun 1, 2005
By:
Sander A. Flaum
If you're working your way up, or failing on a regular basis, it makes sense to keep learning and embrace change. But if all is going well, what is your motivation to keep learning and changing as necessary?
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Father and son debate the alternatives: Should American workers toughen up—or does business need a new paradigm?
May 1, 2005
By:
Sander A. Flaum, Jonathon Flaum
The Boomer generation has created weekend dads and TV dinners.
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The next Big Idea will probably come from your people. Does your company have the engine to harvest it?
Apr 1, 2005
By:
Sander A. Flaum
Creativity that spawns innovation transcends the daily workplace grind and shows up in unexpected areas.
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