The Parable of the Unmerciful Bankers
It's estimated that the bonus pool of just one of these big banks would have been enough money to prevent or significantly delay foreclosure for all 2.3 million people who lost their homes last year.
It's estimated that the bonus pool of just one of these big banks would have been enough money to prevent or significantly delay foreclosure for all 2.3 million people who lost their homes last year.
Simon Sinek | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
The greatest threat any organization can face is not its competition but its own success. With great success comes complacency -- the false belief that you are the best and that you don't have to worry.
Simon Sinek | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
Direction is the far-away destination to which you are heading and directions are the route you will take to get to get there.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
A woman whose name we all know was a proud Red, a committed Socialist, and an unapologetic Wobbly. And now she's not only buried in the National Cathedral, she's got her own statue in the Capitol.
John O'Neil | Posted 11.29.2009 | Living
How do the best leaders cope with matching time and purpose? Based on my research and experience here are a few clear guidelines on how to save time and bend it to your purpose.
Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
Like great actors, inspirational leaders sometimes need to be consummate performers. It doesn't matter if they have a headache. They do whatever it takes to help their organization succeed.
James M. Lynch | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
When my father died we were left in insurmountable, unrecoverable debt and we did, literally, go broke because he got sick.
Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
Why don't most of us ask, even though we know we should? We don't ask, because we are afraid of the answers.
Jim Selman | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living
We live as if the causes and the solutions to our problems are somehow outside of ourselves and that they are beyond our ability to resolve. This view of the world inevitably leads to resignation.
Peter Diamandis | Posted 08.06.2009 | Living
Singularity University aims to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity's grand challenges.
Jim Wallis | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
With an issue like health, deeply personal but of great public concern, the faith community has a unique and important role to play: to define and raise the moral issues that lay just beneath the policy debate.
Timothy Cooper | Posted 06.28.2009 | Eyes & Ears
Youth should be sitting around the table with the policy and decision-makers, as no one knows the foster care system better than the youth who've lived in it.
Laura Liswood | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
It does not surprise me that the debate around President Obama includes the issue of how much to expect and what can change.
Rick Smith | Posted 05.02.2009 | Living
To be successful, you need to earn every relationship. Leadership in the 21st century is based entirely on one's ability to recruit and inspire others toward the future you are trying to create.
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. | Posted 04.26.2009 | Living
Where's the gravitas? Where are the leaders? This is no time for our most experienced men and women to be on the bench.
Jim Wallis | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics
This wasn't really a budget speech, or even a State of the Union. It was a call to rebuild a country -- from its infrastructure, to its economy, to its values.
David Weinberger | Posted 02.17.2009 | Politics
Although I've been furious at President Bush for years, I had no idea I've actually been holding some back. I didn't think I had any more to give. But then George Bush began his round of farewells.
Ambria Miscia | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
It's hard to regroup in life when all you have time to think about is the ten steps in front of you: food, shelter and basic necessities.
Jonathan Powers | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
If we want to ensure that we have a strong, capable fighting force, we need to help America's youth succeed academically, graduate from high school and obey the law.
Jim Wallis | Posted 01.11.2009 | Business
If we are honest with ourselves, we realize that the very mistakes the leadership of GM, Chrysler, and Ford have made are all too recognizable in ourselves -- even if there are drastic differences of scale.
Rick Foster | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
Our attraction to certain personal characteristics is integral to how we evolved as humans. How do we leap from prehistoric clan success to modern day presidential politics?
Roger Fransecky | Posted 09.08.2008 | Living
Leaders are in the outcome business. Most of us live with the "hope" that we'll "get 'er done," but too often we are delayed or lost getting there. Or we never leave.
Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green
I saw no ideals at the G-8 Summit. Instead, I saw compromise and jockeying and political posturing. These are not the behaviors of leaders, they are the behaviors of followers.
Jim Wallis | Posted 12.17.2009 | Business