Archive for October, 2006

Recent articles on leadership from around the web…

• Is Leadership a Nation’s Most Valuable Resource?
  Foreign Affairs points out that after liberalizing its markets, opening up to foreign trade and investment, and becoming a global economic powerhouse, China faces an even bigger challenge: a leadership shortage.

• Better Security Through Better Management
  The Washington Post reviews the new book, Meeting the Challenge of 9/11: Blueprints for More Effective Government. Given the great challenges faced by homeland security, it doesn’t come as surprise that it all boils down to good management: “the government needs to focus on training and rewarding managers for operating across organizational boundaries.”

• Three Steps to a Better Presentation
  HBS’s Harbus Online gives us three simple tips to better presentations and ends with a warning: “The PowerPoint presentation is just a visual tool… Speakers are challenged to minimize the distractions that visuals may cause from the presentation itself.”

• The Rise and Fall of a Celebrity Chief Executive
  The Chicago Tribune traces former HP CEO Carly Fiorina’s roller-coaster ride through documented in her recent book, Tough Choices. “Even though it’s clear she always does things her way, her account of a woman’s rise from receptionist to Fortune magazine’s perennial choice for the most powerful woman in business is useful to anyone looking to succeed.”

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