Review of Bonjour Laziness: Jumping Off the Corporate Ladder

A book review of Bonjour Laziness: Jumping Off the Corporate Ladder, by Corinne Maier

Can Business Leaders Learn From Leaders of Today’s Megachurches?

In 2005, Malcolm Gladwell, author of the best selling books, The Turning Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Little, Brown & Company, 2000) and Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Little, Brown & Company, 2005), wrote an article titled The Cellular Church that appeared in The New Yorker Magazine (9/12/05). The article retells the story of the beginnings and the growth of Pastor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church located in the Saddleback Valley of Orange County, California. In re-reading the article I found an interesting quote attributed to Jack Welch, the former chairman of General Electric and a person considered by many to be the greatest leader/manager of the past century. In the article, Gladwell makes the following quote regarding a conversation Rick Warren had with Jack Welch, “I had dinner with Jack Welch last Sunday Night,” he said. “He came to church, and we had dinner. I’ve been kind of mentoring him on his spiritual journey. And he said to me, ‘Rick, you are the biggest thinker I have ever met in my life. The only other person I know who thinks globally like you is Rupert Murdoch.

Leadership and Recruitment: What Leaders Can Learn From Coach Robert Montgomery Knight

The article discusses the leadership style of coach Robert Knight that can be adapted by business leaders in recruiting and managing their employees. Background information about Knight is presented. It is said that Knight believes that coaching is motivation and leadership and understanding human nature. According to the author, Knight is concerned with creating an environment where helping co-workers work to their fullest is the norm. Some additional insights into the leadership philosophy of Knight are presented

Leading With The Heart: Coach K’S Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business and Life

If you are a student of leadership, whether in business or in sports, you have no doubt noticed the proliferation of leadership books that continue to make their way onto the shelves of bookstores. After a while one starts to wonder if there can be possibly anything left to write on the subject that hasn’t already been written. Well, perhaps there is; the relationship between leadership in sports and leadership in business, perhaps even leadership in our everyday lives

“Go Live in ’05”—From Hierarchy to Shared Governance in Higher Education

Higher education is in the midst of a major transformation evidenced by several factors: greater demands from stakeholders; pressure to increase student enrollment, financial uncertainty, limited resources, and a responsibility to contribute to the community’s civic and economic development. Faculty and staff in higher education are challenged to deliver education in innovative ways. This innovation requires an expedient method of governance and necessitates careful examination of the organization’s structural, cultural, and decision-making processes. To meet these demands, leaders in higher education must examine decision-making processes and design governance models that respond quickly and efficiently to their myriad of constituents

How Can Anyone Lead Others Until They Are Ready to Lead Themselves?

What I would like to focus on in this essay is the quality of personal leadership. What can each of us do in our personal and professional lives to assume leadership over what we do

The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works

Review of The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works. By Ricardo Semler. New York. Portfolio Books.978-1591840268 256 pages. Peter A. Moresco, Ph.D., is assistant professor of marketing and director of acedemic quality, College of Business, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT 06825

Leading With The Heart: Coach K’S Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business and Life

If you are a student of leadership, whether in business or in sports, you have no doubt noticed the proliferation of leadership books that continue to make their way onto the shelves of bookstores. After a while one starts to wonder if there can be possibly anything left to write on the subject that hasn’t already been written. Well, perhaps there is; the relationship between leadership in sports and leadership in business, perhaps even leadership in our everyday lives

A Classic Book—Revisited

Book review by Peter Maresco. Ricardo Semler, Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace, New York: Warner Books, 1993. ISBN 978044651696