Recent articles on leadership from around the web…

• The Founding Father Returns - Interview with Charles Schwab
  The SF Chronicle talks with Charles Schwab about his return from retirement to run the company he founded. Upon his arrival, he faced some big challenges: disconnection with customers, excessive overhead, and a loss of focus. “It was time for me to make some really bold decisions. Only a founding father could really do these things, because they were pretty scary for anyone else to do… because they were potentially risky.”
• Leading the Founding Fathers - Interview with Google’s Eric Schmidt
  Wired Magazine talks with Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt about the inner workings of the leadership team at Google. “The characteristics of most companies, in my observation, is that you don’t have a lot of buy-in. The decisions are top down or they’re driven from some external thing. People are like, ‘Oh, screw that, they don’t really buy in.’ But a decision-making process that is a sum of its iterative process, which is how Google works, generates commitment and passion that makes my job very easy.”
• Your Values, on Your Time
  A recent survey claims that one third of workers feel that their employer’s core values are not consistent with their own. “Management often seems to expect employees to ignore their personal values in favour of the ones posted on the wall.”
• Your Values, on Our Dime
  Not every company is disconnected with their employees’ values. Fast Company looks at some of the companies on the Center for Companies That Care’s 2007 Honor Role. In the honor role, they give 10 characteristings of a caring company. Number one: Sustains a work environment founded on dignity and respect for all employees.

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