Monthly Lessons in Leadership from the Daily News

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Leaderslips & Tips is a monthy critique of leadership from the daily news, including the good, the bad, and the bungled!  Not only will you enjoy Tom's tongue-in-cheek approach but your leadership will be stimulated by his insightful perspectives from everyday news stories, people, and events. You will never look at the news the same way again!

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Shirley Sherrod Showcases Management Mistakes, Misdeeds, and Meltdowns (July 2010)

Big League Mistake is a Homerun for Leadership: Umpire Jim Joyce shows how to handle an error (June 2010)

Top kill "blamestorming" in your organization: hold people accountable without killing teamwork (May 2010)

Is the Pope Catholic? The physics of trust and transparency in his leadership and yours (April 2010)

Winter Olympics: Officials' decision-making affects athletes' lives more than ever (March 2010)

Toyoda: Could the car company driver Tiger out of the woods? (February 2010)

Michael Vick: Maybe "mentoring" can do what "coaching" could not? (August 2009)

Sarah Palin: Resignation communication is incongruent, incomplete, and disingenuous (July 2009)

Barbara Boxer: Makes it clear who's in charge with a brigadeer (June 2009)

Nancy Pelosi: Cracked credibility puts leadership in limbo (May 2009)

Obama-Bush: The linguistics of leadership (January 2009)

Blogojevich, Kennedy, and the Media: Credibility is a three-ring circus (December 2008)

Obama Cabinet: The complicated calculus of choosing a top team (November 2008)

Clinton-Palin: An "inconvenient trut" about women in leadership (October 2008)

Ground Zero: Leadership grinds much too slowly (September 2008)

US Olympic Men's Basketball: It takes more than talent (August 2008)

Chrysler CEO: Too much too soon or too little too late? (July 2008)

Air Force: Accountability "aims high," too (June 2008)

Hershey Corporation: Top teams are dysfunctional, too (May 2008)

Eliot Spitzer: Hoist with his own personality (April 2008)

College of William & Mary: Stakeholders stall president's career (March 2008)

Kwame Kirkpatrick: Detroit debacle was no "mistake" (February 2008)

Best and Worst Leadership of 2007 Awards (January 2008)