Recent articles on leadership from around the web…

• Peer Pressure is Finally Back In Style
  The Chicago Tribune reports on the value of spending time learning from your peers in their coverage of an emerging trend of peer-to-peer advisory groups: “All of us are smarter than one of us. That is the concept.”

• Is Leadership Undermining the Organization?
  B-school critics face off in the Financial Times: Does teaching leadership in MBA programs put too much focus on the individual, undermining organizations, or does it finally give balance to the science of management?

• FDR, Wilson, and Hoover on IT Management
  Computerworld is urging IT managers to achieve clarity by studying history and learning from past American presidents - “be less like Hoover and more like FDR”.

• Uncovering the New Leader
  As part of their special report on America’s Best Leaders, U.S. News and World Report tells us that “there is no shortage of people with the capacity to lead.” Instead, the problem lies in their organizations. “People don’t feel empowered to take charge, nor are they rewarded for doing so.”

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