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Forbes Leadership Highlights of the Week: Learning From Psychopaths and Monks
A monk, not a psychopath. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) There are an awful lot of places outside of businesses that can teach you about leadership. We confirmed that this week at Forbes Leadership with...
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Forbes Leadership Highlights of the Week: Selling a New iPhone
Waiting for the new iPhone. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) A new iPhone can mean all sorts of things—customers lining up through the night, sleek new design, bad maps—but at Forbes...
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Could a Man Do Hillary Clinton’s Job?
Clinton's official portrait as secretary of state. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) That’s the not-only-kidding question asked by a new article in Foreign Policy by John Norris, of the Center for American...
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How Income Inequality Is Damaging the U.S.
English: A chart demonstrating increases in the annual income of the top 1% of wealthy persons in the U.S. before economic crises. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) New research indicates that growing income...
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The Single Most Important Thing to Watch for in the Presidential Debates
Mitt Romney at a debate during this year's presidential primaries. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) Above all else, watch for and try to gauge and judge the candidates’ temperaments. Nothing...
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Who Won the Debate in Terms of Temperament?
Mitt Romney should be smiling tonight. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I wrote this morning that the most important thing to watch in tonight’s debate would be the evidence it gave of the candidates’...
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KitchenAid Attacks Obama’s Grandmother, Then Apologizes
Here is a cautionary tale about the power of Twitter. Last night during the debate President Obama mentioned his grandmother, and her health care problems as she neared death, as he discussed the...
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Forbes Leadership Highlights of the Week: Debating the Debate
Which of these three men did the worst job? (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) The big leadership news this week was Wednesday’s presidential debate, and the performance of the contenders at...
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CEO Says He’ll Fire Employees if Obama’s Reelected
David Siegel with his wife, Jackie. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. David Siegel, the founder and chief executive of Westgate Resorts, a national timeshare company, became famous this year when a...
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Who Won the Vice-Presidential Debate in Terms of Temperament?
Vice President Joe Biden (Photo credit: Getty Images) Last week I scored the first presidential debate as a clear victory for Mitt Romney in terms of displaying presidential temperament. Tonight, I’d...
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Who Won the Second Presidential Debate in Terms of Temperament?
(Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) In tonight’s debate we saw a transformed Barack Obama, and it made a very big difference. In the first debate Governor Mitt Romney was relaxed and confident...
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How Obama Won the Second Debate
Here I am on video discussing how Barack Obama, after roundly losing the first presidential election debate, triumphed in the second, with clips from the debate illustrating my points. The president...
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Forbes Leadership Highlights of the Week: Obama Wins, Pandit and Armstrong Lose
Once again this week, a presidential debate dominated the leadership news—though there was a lot else going on, too. We were all over the debate at Forbes Leadership. We previewed it with Cara Hale...
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Who Won the Third Presidential Debate in Terms of Temperament?
I don’t think this debate had as clear a winner as the first two, Mitt Romney in the first and Barack Obama in the second. Both men looked pretty strong for much of the debate. But as it went on,...
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How Obama Dominated in the Final Debate (Video)
Here is my videotaped commentary on the October 22 presidential debate, with clips from the debate illustrating my points about how, as I saw it, the evening began as an evenly matched face-off but...
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You Are Tim Cook’s Boss
Your employee, Tim Cook. (Image via CrunchBase) It’s absolutely true. And that fact gives you tremendous power. That’s a fundamental truth I took away from a wonderful new post by Forbes.com...
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Forbes Leadership Highlights of the Week: The Best Management Idea of All
This man taught us about both rubbish and perfection this week. (Image via CrunchBase.) Yes, there’s one management idea that beats all the others, and this week at Forbes Leadership, Steve Denning...
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Robinson Crusoe in 21st Century Manhattan
The park at the end of our block. Photograph by Michael Hoerner. Right now I am sitting on the sidewalk outside a mobbed Starbucks in Times Square, having walked uptown from powerless Greenwich...
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After Sandy in Manhattan: Now Comes the Hard Part
The view down Seventh Avenue in Greenwich Village around 7 p.m. Friday. Only 1 World Trade Center, two miles away, is lit. But two blocks north, at Fourteenth Street, the lights had just turned back...
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New York’s New Voting System Is a Disaster
A section of the line at my polling place. In 2010 New York became the last state to switch to electronic voting in compliance with federal law. It picked a system that, at least where I vote, is...
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