Recent articles on leadership from around the web…

• Leading the Toyota Way
  Recognizing that their corporate culture is one of their key differentiators, Toyota has opened the Toyota Institute to teach future leaders Toyota’s prized management secrets and to reinforce their culture, The New York Times gives us a look inside the Toyota Institute.
• Want to have more fun on the job?
  Fast Company gives us 10 ways to inject more fun into the workplace. Some of their suggestions: mid-day wardrobe changes, karaoke, and labeling inter-office email “FEEL FREE TO IGNORE THIS USELESS DRIVEL”.
• Leadership lessons from great presidents
  CIO Magazine celebrates Presidents’ Day by pulling out their history books to share leadership lessons from past presidents. What made George Washington great? Passion. “No one hated the Brits as much as he did.”
• Teaching business in grade-school
  The LA Times takes us through a “Kiddie-MBA” program that teaches business skills to elementary school kids. According to the program’s advocates, teaching business gets kids to expand “their options beyond firefighter, veterinarian and other common fifth-grade career picks.”

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