Recent articles on leadership from around the web…

• Business by Design
  Roger Martin, the Dean of the business school at the University of Toronto, reflects on lessons that businesses can learn from the design world. Lesson one: “the absence of something doesn’t mean it can’t exist—just that it hadn’t been designed yet.”
  
• Magnets and Morals
  The Star Tribune gives us a Q&A with former Medtronic CEO turned author Bill George, where Bill talks about why some leaders lose their way and others instinctively know their path. “If your management doesn’t care about you and you don’t feel well-treated, you’re not going to reflect that back to your customers with great service.”
• What to Say When “Happy Birthday” is Already Taken
  The CareerJournal solves that age old problem of figuring out what to say in those co-worker birthday cards. Some ideas: make it personal, inject humor, or say it with pictures. If all else fails, “use a quote”.
• So What Exactly is Employee Engagement, Anyway?
  We know it takes more than just knowing thoughtful birthday cards from their coworkers to keep an employee engaged. Management Craft takes a deeper look at what it really means to be engaged employee.

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