Recent articles on leadership from around the web…

• Why you should be nice to your grumpy co-worker
  The Houston Chronicle tells us that your grumpy co-worker might be the one motivated enough to make things better. “It’s the happy, cheerful folks who tend to think things are going well and that there are no problems to be solved.”
• Departing boomers make room for Gen-X leaders
  We’re all interested in what’s going to happen as 75 million baby-boomers leave the workforce over the next 10 years. CIO Magazine gives us an analysis of how gen-X-ers can fill the vacancies.
• Female executives improve the bottom line
  More women executives = 35% higher return on equity. That’s a pretty compelling argument for gender diversity. SHRM Online walks us through one company’s long-standing efforts to help women advance is paying off.
• Ask the ethics guy!
  The Ethics Guy (a.k.a. Bruce Weinstein writing in Business Week) gives us five simple principles to guide our conduct. They might not teach these in b-school, but they definitely teach them in kindergarten.

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