The linking of leadership with a position, whether atop a government or a corporation, is so well established that it is easy for us to over...

Citing twelve past and present AOL employees, The Wa ll Street Journal characterized AOL in 2011 as a “culture of clashing fiefs and perso...

In the late twentieth century, many leadership scholars explored the link between ethics and leadership. The ethical component was portraye...

Strategic planning is oriented to enhancing the bottom-line.   Leadership affects organizational performance as well. [1] Therefore, str...

To lead is to be out in front, pointing the jet’s nose one way rather than another. Leadership is not that which causes drag at the back of...

Political ideology and religious doctrine are distinct, yet confusion can justifiably exist because ideology can seep into doctrine or be c...

U.S. President Obama’s 2010 speech at the UN’s annual opening lacked tangible proposals.   For example, he urged progress on the Middle Ea...

In April 2013, JC Penney’s board wished the CEO, Ron Johnson, “the best in his future endeavors.” His effort to “reinvent” the company ha...

According to a piece in the National Review, “George Washington might have had the right idea. Second inaugural addresses should be short a...

According to DePree (1989, p.19), the first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. This might seem metaphysically esoteric, but I...

In the "leadership vs. management" dichotomy, "management focuses on getting work done on time, on budget, and on target--in...

Typically as a company transitions from an enterprising, creative new venture to a large organization to be managed, a staid CEO replaces a...

Faced with a stock price down 75 percent since its IPO and conflict with subordinates throughout 2012, Zynga’s chief executive Mark Pincus ...

By the early 1990’s, the U.S. had banned drilling off the Atlantic coast. In the wake of BP’s deep-water-drilling disaster in the Gulf of ...

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook (and Instagram) “remained silent” during the two days after the data-breach scandal broke in M...

“Theranos rose quickly from being a college dropout’s idea to revolutionize the blood analysis industry to a hot tech bet that accrued $70...

In Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate on 11/11/11 in 2011, costumes were the norm in the evening as revelers celebrated the numeric convergence...

In the wake of the failure of the joint congressional committee that was tasked with coming up with a proposal to reduce federal deficits o...

Baudrillard writes of "hyper-reality," which arises when productions—perhaps created by publicists and other spin doctors—become ...

When Eneco began a business called CrowdNett in which the company would sell large home-batteries to people having solar panels, the Dutch ...