1.0 link 72884 <![CDATA[Global Leadership and Business Success Are Both About Hitting Singles, Not Homers]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-h-green/global-leadership-and-bus_b_72884.html On November 8, the Washington Speaker's Bureau booked a nice commission when former Prime Minister Tony Blair was paid $500,000 for a 20-minute talk to Chinese industry and government officials in Hong Kong.

Not a bad sum, even in US dollars. Blair's Chinese market rate is now 2X the former reigning champion, one William Jefferson Clinton (and 5X Rudy Giuliani's rate, according to the Financial Times (print edition, Nov. 9, 2007).

But all was not sweetness and light. Several attendees groused...

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