A recent article in Fortune magazine notes that the skills employers value most are the ones MBA's lack. What are they? People skills.

Nicholas Sarkozy is president-elect of France, but that does not mean he will be able to lead. There are four conditions necessary for an individual to lead an organization, and Sarkozy has only fulfilled the first - position. The other three necessary conditions are period, people, and place.

The recent national elections in France and the seemingly unending march of presidential politics in the United States caused me to reflect recently on a 'silent' leader - Raoul Wallenberg. This man was a Swedish diplomat from a prominent family who risked his life in World War II to rescue as many as 100,000 Jews in Hungary from extermination.

The defeat of the French Socialist Party candidate for president, Segolene Royal, seems to have slowed what columnist Dick Morris called "the seemingly irresistible momentum of female candidates worldwide." Indeed, after Angela Merkel was elected chancellor of Germany, Michelle Bachalet won the Chilean presidency and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf took Liberia's presidency, it certainly appeared that wome

Trust:: The Secret Weapon of Effective Business Leaders author: Kathy Bloomgarden asin: 031234984X

It is funny how certain topics seem to pop up in the business genre. Currently, a hot area is the subject of trust. Stephen Covey writes about the "Speed of Trust," Cynthia Wall on the "Courage to Trust," and J. Y.