Restoring Solvency
It is by now a cliché to observe that Barack Obama took office facing the greatest challenge of any United States president since Franklin Roosevelt.
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Performance Leadership: Eleven Better Practices That Can Ratchet Up Performance
Book abstract: The anthology covers a wide range of topics, offering a third sector perspective on the general leadership questions essential to any manager--principles and practices of leadership, or
Acting in Time Against Disasters: A Comprehensive Risk Management Framework
Book Abstract: Events ranging from Hurricane Katrina to the global economic crisis have taught businesspeople an unforgettable lesson: if you don’t plan for “extreme risk,” you endanger your organizat
The New US Administration: Meeting Challenges, Managing Expectations
Recent developments, especially the devastating economic crisis, have highlighted the world’s growing interdependence and drawn attention to the need to reform the structures of global governance.
PerformanceStat as a Search for Strategic Evidence
What kind of data can be analyzed in what ways to help to determine the current level of performance, to ascertain what approaches (if any) are (or have been) working and why, to diagnose key performa
PerformanceStat Leadership Strategy
PerformanceStat is not a system, or a model. It is a leadership strategy.
The National Deficit--of Leadership
In this article the author discusses his view that in the United States there is not only a crisis of leadership but a crisis of confidence.
Simple Strategies Drive Out the Subtle
“Bad money drives out the good.” This sentence is universally known as Gresham’s Law — named for Sir Thomas Gresham, who is famous for six words he never said and for a concept he did not invent.
Ratcheting Up Performance
Years ago, when my son was a young teenager, the two of us stood at the bottom of Tuckerman’s Ravine in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.
Procedural Justice
The Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences is an indispensable resource for all who wish to find out about theories, concepts, methods, and research findings in this rapidly growing in
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