Recent articles on leadership from around the web…

• Behavior more important than strategy
  WSJ’s CareerJournal profiles reluctant leadership and teamwork guru Patrick Lencioni while making the case for the softer side of management. “Business-literature trackers say books on topics like the psychology of leaders outsell tracts on hard-nosed subjects like supply-chain management.”
• What is a leader without the trust of their followers?
  All Africa has very blunt report on the advice a Rwandan Mayor gave local leaders. Extort money; lose trust. “Unless leaders develop a character that enables them win the trust and respect of the people, they will never succeed.”
• The rise and fall of trust
  It seems that ‘trust’ may be a bigger topic in Rwanda these days than in the US, where ‘trust’ has been traded for ‘accountability’. In The Decline of Trust, Washington Post Op-Ed columnist Sebastian Mallaby documents the shift.
• A downsized Jack Welch
  The New York Times featured a story on the how the former GE chief is spending his retirement. “Jack Welch, CEO” has transformed into “Jack Welch, LLC”, with a busy speaking and consulting schedule and a potential bid for The Boston Globe.

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