Recent articles on leadership from around the web…

• A harmonizer and a bridge-builder
  Canada.com brings us coverage on incoming UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon’s plan. “You could say that I’m a man on a mission, and my mission could be dubbed Operation Restore Trust.”
• Nine of 500
  Julie Creswell of The New York Times gives us a detailed look at why so few women are in the top spot at Fortune 500’s. “For decades, the pat explanation was that women simply had not been in the work force long enough; with patience, the pipeline would fill.” The pipeline’s full, so what’s really going on?
• It’s what you do, not when you do it
  Best Buy is ’smashing the clock’ and moving to a ‘results only work environment’. As Business Week tells us, this means no more schedules or mandatory meetings. Is this the way of the future?
• Or is it not really what you do, but why you do it?
  Fast Company tells us that matching values is more powerful than money in keeping good employees. It turns out, if you feel that your work is important, you’ll also find it meaningful.

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