(Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future . The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria , Rakesh Khurana , and Scott Snook . This week’s focus: values.) From the Gilded Age to the Information Age , business leaders who attain rock star status have often been the deal makers.
The following blog was written by Kate White, Executive Director, Elder Law of Michigan As the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform turns its attention to Social Security, it is vital that Washington doesn’t attempt to impose “responsibility and reform” on the backs of low income families. Social Security is the cornerstone of the safety net in the United States, providing a small income for people with disabilities, children, and older adults.
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Could You Live on Social Security?
With global expansion, intra- and inter-industry restructuring, and increasing numbers of merging organizations, the need for dynamic flexibility and a broad base of knowledge and expertise is greater than ever. Shared leadership, by virtue of its use of the combined best of leaders’ abilities, is being tested as one possible solution for meeting these challenging business needs. What is shared leadership?
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Sharing Leadership to Maximize Talent
“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.” — Stephen Kaggwa Earlier this week I was a guest on Minnesota Public Radio’s morning show discussing “The Gulf Oil Spill and the Blame Game.” The other guest was Alan Webber , ex of HBR , founder of Fast Company , and author of Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business Without Losing Your Self , and we had a wonderful conversation about the culture of unaccountability that contributed to the ecological disaster we are witnessing in the Gulf, and the blame game that is being played out in the media. One caller raised the fascinating issue of forgiveness, raising the legitimate concern that punishing failures like what happened with BP in the Gulf would lead inevitably to people denying responsibility, blaming others, and seeking to hide their failures
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When Should We Forgive Failure?
With the first round of health reform under our belts, it’s time to shift attention from access to the real issue plaguing the American health system: cost. The cost issue is complex, spanning payment models, medical malpractice and defensive medicine, and the specialty versus primary care debate. But I want to focus on consumers, and the broader context in which they make their healthcare decisions.
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Prevention and Consumer Self-management
I’ll hold my breath for this to last 10 years. I hope so, but…it’s a business deal with F1. Ask Indy how that works out. Formula One World Championship Limited and Formula One Administration Limited together, the F1 Commercial Rights Holder and Full Throttle Productions, LP, promoter of the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix™, announce that a historic agreement has been reached for Austin, Texas to serve as the host city of the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix™ for years 2012 through 2021
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Nice: F1 coming to Austin in 2012-2022
They are able to take one of these: via Amazon.com: Davis 6152 Vantage Pro-2 Wireless Weather Station with Standard Radiation Shield and reduce its weight when shipping it:
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Something magical from Amazon
I mentioned in my original Best Apple iPad Case post that I had ordered a total of 5 iPad cases and covers in my search for something better than the flimsy Apple iPad Case. The first iPad cover I mentioned in the video came from HandHeld Items
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Best Apple iPad Case – Part 2 
By VINCE KURAITIS JD, MBA and DAVID C. KIBBE MD, MBA Pop quiz: Among early-stage companies that are successful, what percentage are successful with the initial business model with which they started (Plan A) vs. a secondary business model (Plan…
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Is HITECH Working? #7: Where’s Plan B? Congress and ONC need to address major flaws in HITECH
The other day, I was trying to find something listenable on the radio and scanned to a sports talk show where they were discussing the case of Mike Lowell. It isn’t fair, the commentators said, that an All-Star, clutch player, good guy in the club house, who’s thinking about retirement and may end a very good career while sitting on the bench
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Going out in our own style
I have found a special place in my garden, a spot where I can stop and rest of an evening and look across the lawn, Or gaze up at the sky, Or see up close the plants around me. This place was always here, waiting to be discovered. Like a diamond cutter studies the rough, unimpressive rock before making the first cut and revealing the beauty of the diamond within, my garden designer studied
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Discovering the Garden Design Element of "Placeness"
By Matthew Holt One of my favorite people has the (first of) her (several) 15 minutes of fame in the NY Times today. Alex Drane tells all about growing a small business into a pretty big one (although it’s in…
My friend Leigh Kostiainen recently redesigned my Facebook, Twitter and YouTube themes all to match. You can see the before & after of each of those pages in this quick video: Even if you already “like” my Facebook Page, you can view the Welcome page here that new visitors see when they arrive: ClickNewz Welcome Page on Facebook .
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Facebook Fan Page Design -Live Example
(Photo: Peter Dazeley) Do Americans care about fuel economy as oil spills into the Gulf of Mexico and gasoline hovers around $3 a gallon? You bet they do, though they also have a fair number of misconceptions about how to squeeze a few more miles out of every drop. The Consumer Federation of America’s (CFA) most recent survey says that if we had a 50-mile-per-gallon car fleet today, we’d save more oil than the entire proven reserves in the entire Gulf of Mexico.
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Six gas mileage myths
I’m pleased to announce the launch of the Writer’s Success Resource Center , a joint project between Freelance Writing Jobs and PoeWar . The Resource Center, which is sponsored by Demand Studios , features articles, podcasts, webcasts and videos filled with in-depth information to help all freelance writers achieve success. John Hewitt of PoeWar and I will take alternating Mondays for our featured content
Here’s a quick history: Affiliate Networks have been doing Referral Programs forever. The concept is simple, you send them affiliates that you know or from your blog, and they give you a percentage of their earnings as a referral commission. It’s usually between 2% to 5% of the gross payouts that are generated by the referred affiliate. Networks started doing this because it was an effective way to promote their networks on a pay-for-performance basis. It became immensely popular with the make money online bloggers, and they started making quite a nice bit of cash for their referrals.
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Are Your Referral Commissions Getting Shaved?
The United States Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”) released guidelines on the use of unpaid interns by employers in the private sector. Typically, an employment relationship will be created unless an internship can meet the six criteria laid out by the WHD.
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Department of Labor Issues Guidelines on Unpaid Internships
On May 12, 2010, the New York State Senate passed S1823b , a bill to amend the labor law to prohibit abusive work environments. If the bill were to pass scrutiny in the State Assembly, and be signed into law by the Governor, employees in the State of New York would have expansive protections beyond just the anti-discrimination statutes. In effect, the bill would transform the employment-at-will landscape, requiring that employers make sure that employees are not being subjected to bullying, while also making it more difficult for employers to terminate employees who complain of such
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The Healthy Workplace Bill: Will New York State Prohibit Workplace Bullying?
This week I saw the first promise of tomato season. A few brightly colored cherry specimens were brought home from the local market, as well as the more standard varieties. I was down in Gascony visiting my friend Kate Hill , and her photographer friend Tim Clinch was there preparing to lead a photography workshop
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French Tomato Tart
In Search of Separation… Being a freelancer guarantees weirdness. Unpredictability is the only constant and the bizarre twists and turns of everyday life constantly squash efforts to create that ideal professional/personal balance.
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Separation, Integration and Working as a Freelance Writer: My Peas are Touching My Meat (and it’s Good)