(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.) All animals survive guided by two innate drives, or ultimate motives

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Moral Leadership as Shaped by Human Evolution

For those librarians out there who need to keep up with the digital world, Onlinedegrees has just published their listing of the top 25 librarian blogs. Many of them cover the e-world. I note that we are listed as number 21! I also see that my favorites, Resource Shelf and No Shelf Required , are on the list

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Top 25 Librarian Blogs

Featured Guest: Tony Schwartz, president and CEO of The Energy Project and author of The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working . He is also the author of the HBR article The Productivity Paradox: How Sony Pictures Gets More Out of People by Demanding Less

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Managing the Productivity Paradox

Yesterday, while reading the Inquirer, a story caught my eye in the travel section — hotels want to know you, mister angry@hostelry. Getting to know your customers is a good thing, that was the main reason why I started reading the …

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Conversation Agent: Retaliating for Negative Reviews not the Way to Go

A short passage to get a feel for the narrative: When I heard his thin voice answer the telephone, I dreaded saying my name, imagining that he would be utterly dismayed at the sound of it, but at once he began to apologize, saying: “I should have written, just a note even, I should have written to thank you for the lunch.” “Oh, no, Gerald!” I said relieved, “it was a terrible lunch and I think I should have written to you really. You see, I was brought up in India, Gerald, and I’m afraid I’ve never quite lost it, the habit of never saying anything that’s helpful. No one in India seemed to have a feeling for helpfulness, only a feeling for what is right , and it took me a long time to see that almost everything they thought was right was actually not all that right, but in fact rather wrong

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Letter To Sister Benedicta by Rose Tremain

I so wanted to say something nice about Barnes & Noble, the Nook, and its new B&N eReader App for the iPad. I’ve been a little harsh at times in the past, I’ll admit: even as recently as  yesterday . So, after reading early reviews of the iPad app from a couple of colleagues, and seeing how, as in the above screenshot, it had already soared to the top of all free apps in the iPad App Store, I was ready.

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Barnes & Noble gets it 90% right, but fails again, with new eReader iPad app

The gall of BP and their federal overseers in withholding the fact that the “top kill” effort was suspended for much of yesterday is almost too outrageous to be believed. Officials from both the oil giant and the government gave the impression Thursday morning that their efforts to plug the gushing well with heavy drilling mud were working—even though…

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See No Evil, Report No Evil

The Guardian’s Roy Greenslade thinks we should take a lesson about paywalls from the Irish News, a 45,000-circulation daily that charges (a lot) to access its work on the Web. If you click on the Irish News website up comes a page demanding that you pay for access to a digital edition. There is a choice: £5 for one…

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Missing the Paywall Point

The New York Times has a fascinating look at an angle of the immigration story that often goes unnoticed: international migration patterns. The piece is timely, both because of renewed interest in the immigration debate in the U.S., and because you might expect the world’s economic turmoil to slow down the movement of people around the globe. Not exactly….

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The Times Takes a Timely Look at Migration

Given much of the media’s determination to see politics primarily as a stage upon which the president struts and frets, it’s no surprise that, in the wake of Barack Obama’s press conference on the oil spill Thursday, there’s a bunch of mostly overwrought writing today on what it all means for his administration. Andrew Sullivan has found what’s…

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Hacky Punditry at the WSJ

Lots of people walk through the doors of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism every day. Just this past month, some of them have included Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal reporter Ian Johnson; Mark Halperin and John Heileman, co-authors of the best-selling non-fiction book Game Change; Steven Berlin Johnson, co-creator of the hyperlocal site Outside.In; and John Ciampa, a thirty-seven-year-old…

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The Man on the Street

Folks who’ve been paying attention to the Republican Senate primary in California this year might have noticed something unusual: in a “nationalized” election cycle, a fair bit of the debate in a federal election has been devoted to state issues, including the Golden State’s legendarily troubled budget situation. Much of that debate has been driven by Carly Fiorina, the former…

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California Roundup

With Obama’s promise at yesterday’s press conference that the White House would imminently (“When I say ‘shortly,’ I mean shortly. I don’t mean weeks or months”) offer an accounting of its communications with Congressman Joe Sestak before he announced his challenge to party-switching incumbent Arlen Specter—the administration’s favored candidate—in Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate primary, we should have seen this coming: if…

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Taking out the Sestak Trash

Prior to returning my call, Barry Levine was on the phone with one of his reporters, discussing a source they hoped to use for a story. For Levine, the executive editor/director of news at the National Enquirer, that entailed discussing the strategy and questions that would be used during an upcoming polygraph examination of the source. Yes, things work a…

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Polygraphs and Private Eyes

Drudge is linking to an incendiary Atlanta Journal-Constitution blog post by former congressman Bob Barr. Barr claims in his headline that “Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence.” Which sounds awfully fishy to anyone not cowering in the census-is-taking-our-freedoms fever swamps, watching for black helicopters. Here’s Barr: What many Americans don’t realize, is that census workers —…

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AJC Stirring Up the Anti-Census Crowd with Falsehoods

Coke and Pepsi are very active in social media, and I think their hard work is helping to build up a bank of trust with their audiences. As has been widely reported, Pepsi decided not to use its Super Bowl ad budget to try to create a set of iconic commercials.

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How Coke and Pepsi Are Using Social Media to Build Their ‘Trust Banks’

One of the very first gigs I got over a year ago when I started full time freelancing was to work on the Twitter account of a life insurance company. The company actually found me through my own Twitter ramblings and still decided to hire me to do the same for them. Since that time I’ve had many different social networking clients and I’ve answered the questions of many different freelancers on how to quote for an SN gig, outline expectations and keep clients happy.

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A Freelance Writer’s Guide to Quoting for Social Networking

Speaking of the Web and hyped headlines, McSweeney’s has probably the best satire of the genre yet. Mike Lacher’s piece, called “Great Literature Retitled To Boost Website Traffic,” includes these gems: 7 Awesome Ways Barnyard Animals Are Like Communism And: 6 Shockingly Evil Things The Turn-Of-The-Century Meatpacking Industry Doesn’t Want You To Know Awesome. —…

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Audit Notes: Animal Farm Webified, Murdoch’s Paradox, Reform Hype

I noted this morning how the Arkansas press corps has a knack for turning out surprisingly readable endorsements. Another campaign staple that tends to be both unedifying and uninteresting, of course, is the debate write-up

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If This Election Thing Doesn’t Work Out, They Can Take This Show on the Road

I woke up this morning feeling guilty, ready to admit a journalistic lapse: I watched only about five minutes of last night’s marathon season finale of “American Idol.” That’s partly because I’ve never liked the show, and partly because both the Red Sox and Celtics were playing on other channels. But I’d meant to tune in last night to watch Simon Cowell’s swan song

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Simon Cowell’s Managerial Legacy