As we’ve seen , the form of more-or-less genuine individual leadership most likely to be identified at the top of an organization is to be discovered in the founder/owner. The co-incidence of what we recognize as individual leadership with success in such instances is just that: coincidence. This is the individual leader who appears from within. MORE >>

It is time once again for the always pleasant task of offering a New Year’s list of recommended additions to your daily reading. Please do bookmark this page and give them all a thorough visit over the next week or so. You undoubtedly will be glad you did. Here they are, in random order: All Things Workplace , by Steve Roesler. Schlegel. Managemen MORE >>

Henry Mintzberg is known as an eminently practical academic researcher: he doesn’t just do surveys and analyses of stock market data and the like. Nor does he do interviews alone – he goes to managers’ workplaces, follows them around, and notes what they actually do – not what they say or think they do. Pick up a copy and enjoy! MORE >>

We’ve covered a lot of ground over the past several years in these pages. We’ve talked about everything from free-market capitalism to history – even physics. In due course we will talk more about what leadership in an organization really is, and how to manage it. It encourages personal ties which rise to the level of cultishness. MORE >>

Most discussions about reconciling one’s person with one’s work – particularly when we wake up one day to find that we’ve been, for decades perhaps, neglecting that little point -  tend to start with a reexamination of who we are. What kind of a person are we, or do we want to be, we ask ourselves. What kind of story does it tell? That’s great. MORE >>