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The Worst CEOs of 2012: What did we Learn?

Great Leadership By Dan

It’s worth taking one last look at 2012?s In case you haven’t seen one yet, here’s a compilation of the 2012 lists: 1. The Bloomberg Businessweek Worst CEOs of 2012. Forbes the Worst CEO Screw-ups of 2012. Herb Greenberg’s Worst CEO of 2012 (CNBC). Valuewalk’s Worst CEOs of 2012. Its pick: McClendon.

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Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf 1934-2012

Leading Blog

The highlight of his career was the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm. Secretary of State Colin Powell , who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during Desert Storm, recalled Schwarzkopf as "a great patriot and a great soldier." He continued, "Norm served his country with courage and distinction for over 35 years.

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The May, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

No matter the arena, business, political, religious or role models in general, the operative question these days is ‘What were he/she/they thinking’. The next edition of the Leadership Development Carnival will be on June 3rd, 2012, hosted by Laura Schroeder from Working Girl. What is going on; are people really getting stupider?

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Society Needs a Leadership Paradigm Shift

Leading Blog

The conditions that we thought of as a strength are actually operating like a vice. Cultivate awareness: The paradigm shift starts with a clear understanding of what character is and how it operates. Furlong held senior global leadership roles at TD Securities, retiring in 2012 as vice chair.

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The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do

Lead Change Blog

In the years since The Secret originally appeared on bookstore shelves, over 500 thousand copies have been sold to leaders and learners around the world, and several additional books have been published in this leadership series, including The Secret of Teams (2011), Great Leaders GROW (2012), and The Heart of Leadership (2013).

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The 5 SOF Truths of Leadership

Nathan Magnuson

From 2006-2012 I served as a part-time member of the U.S. Army’s Special Operations Forces (SOF) community. Some of our hardcore “green beret” colleagues operated as independent 4 man teams conducting unconventional warfare operations.

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Complimentary Resource – Improving Business Operation Performance With Innovations

Strategy Driven

Improving Business Operation Performance With Innovations. Learn how using analytics to guide a business operations function is the path to continuous improvement and achieving higher operational performance. This is why, according to IDC research, business analytics was among the top five IT investment initiatives in 2012.