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Literature as a Leadership Handbook

Joseph Conrad  I have just begun reading a book that is very much in tune with this website: Joseph L. Badaracco’s Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership through Literature, published by Harvard Business School Press (2006). I report here on the introduction. The author talks about assigning Joseph Conrad’s “Secret Sharer” to a […]

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Is Obama an Allworthy or a Beowulf?

Like many supporters of health care reform, I am distressed by what I see as right-wing attempts to disrupt civil discussions on the matter.  Practically no one disputes that we are facing a financial crisis over health care costs and health care coverage.  My own 27-year-old son and his wife, who have just started a […]

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