Recent articles on leadership from around the web…

• Understanding Burnout
  New York Magazine has a feature story about our increasing levels of burnout and what causes it. According to the article, burnout is more a factor of the perceived ‘return on investment’ of an effort than workload.
• And you thought your project was stretched for resources?
  Business Week takes a look at the OScar project, an effort to build an open source car “without an engineering center, without a boss, without money, and without borders.” It turns out keeping the team organized is a bigger issue than lack of resources. “Under the weight of this unanticipated interest, the project slowed to a crawl.”
• Do you need an MBA for that?
  The Seattle PI reports that in this era of high-speed communication, many are clicking the ’send’ button to fast. As a result, many business schools are going back to the basics by including classes on grammar and writing in an effort to clean up bad writing.
• The Seven Essential Ingredients for Leadership
  In a special report of 100 premier IT leaders, ComputerWorld gives us their seven essentials for leadership. Number 1: The ability to lead. It’s hard to argue with that! They might want to listen to our experts thoughts on Number 7 (A knowledge of the industry), though, because you can’t always expect your leaders to be experts.

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