Educational Leadership seems like an oxymoron sometimes
2009-10-12 19:55:00 The New York Times carried this story, of a 6 year old suspended after bringing camping silverware to school. I was on a school board for 8 years, and I am well aware of the difficulties that arise in local districts. Budgets are tight, and legal challenges can wick funds away from education. The easiest path is a "zero tolerance" schemata. Sometimes that is a ridiculous cop out.If schools wish to enjoy respect, they will have to learn to be more fearless in their leadership. Maybe what I mean is that they will have to use their heads. That would be a good example for their clientele. Especially Zachary....
6 reasons to belong to your professional associations
2009-09-23 15:51:00 What is the value of belonging to a professional association? Learning leadership and interpersonal skills, accomplishing things with other people, and promoting and protecting your profession and career are just a few of the top six reasons from an interview with the past-chairman of the ASAE, Clarke Price, CEO of the Ohio Society of CPAs. Also covered is the report from WIlliam E. Smith "Where Winners Meet" that quantifies the benefits of supporting associations for employers.
By: CPA Success
Republican Leadership Stakeout Health Care 9/15/09 TEXT PODCAST VIDEO
2009-09-17 00:28:00 HouseConference, September 15, 2009. House Republican leaders discuss health care after their weekly conference meeting. Download mp3 for PODCAST Republican Leadership Press Conference Category: News & PoliticsFULL TEXT Transcript:Conference Chairman Pence:Image Attribution: www.flickr.com/photos/republica-nconference/ / CC BY-NC 2.0Good morning, all. We just completed our meeting of the House Republican Conference and had a good discussion about the issues before the House this week and before the country.I was home in Indiana yesterday - our state was rocked with the news that one of our leading employers, Eli Lilly and Company, was going to lay off more than 5,000 employees. Projections include upwards to 2,000 Hoosiers will lose their jobs by the year 2011. When I was in Evansville, Indiana, just a few weeks ago in August, we received word that the Whirlpool plant, a plant that had been there for more than half of a century, was closing permanently, ending 1,100 jobs from S...
3 keys to succeeding in the new economic environment
2009-09-13 00:55:00 When will we see the economy return to normal? Everything I have been reading says this is the wrong question. The right questions are, what will the "new" normal look like and what do we do to succeed in this...
By: CPA Success
Republican Leadership Stakeout Health Care 9/9/09 VIDEO
2009-09-10 00:21:00 9/9/09 Republican Leadership Stakeout, Sep. 09, 2009 | Press Conferences. House Republican leaders discuss health care after their weekly conference meeting. Boehner: It?s ?Time to Stop, Hit the Reset Button? on Health Care. Posted by the Press Office on September 09, 2009Tonight the President will address a joint session of Congress in an attempt to convince skeptical lawmakers and a concerned public that America needs a government takeover of health care. In a press conference today, Congressman Boehner said it is ?time to stop, hit the reset button? on the health care debate, ?and sit down in a bipartisan way and begin to deal with what we can deal with to help make our current health care system work better.? Watch Boehner here (begins around the 5:50 mark)
Leadership: The Value of a Good System by By John C. Maxwell
2009-09-09 04:52:00 Almost nightly, the fate of the American health care system headlines the evening news. With costly inefficiencies plaguing the system, employers and workers alike have felt the pain of skyrocketing premiums. Politicians on opposite ends of the political spectrum disagree on the best policies for the future, but there seems to be consensus that the ...
August 2009: The Month The Obama House Of Cards Toppled
2009-09-03 22:37:00 Sorry for my absence from the blog. I blame my real job and a nasty sinus infection that just won’t go away. Anyway, I was just weeding through a ton of GayPatriot email and found this devastating summary by Dick Morris of President Obama’s current political situation. I usually give Dick Morris just about grain of ...
By: GayPatriot
One piece of leadership advice from Warren Buffett
2009-09-02 17:15:00 What's the one piece of advice for leaders from Warren Buffett? When he was asked that question in a recent interview, his response was, "Read, read, read!" That also is the philosophy of AICPA Chairman, Ernie Almonte, who told me...
By: CPA Success
UK Sathya Sai Organization?s New Age leadership
2009-08-11 21:47:00 One has to wonder why this organization has chosen as its leader a person who exhibits all the signs of an unbridled New Age spirituality, Reverend Rosemary Perry? Probably, having a ‘reverend’ – ordained as an Interfaith Minister - is seen to help this embattled cult’s credibility as not being overwhelmingly a Hindu-oriented religious sect. ...
Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: the restoration to leadership of an enligh
2009-08-10 16:38:00 Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: the restoration to leadership of an enlightened aristocracy It is 11:22 AM late Monday morning. I am down in our basement writing in my blogs. Carol went to visit her mother. When she gets back we are going to go to the public library. I do not remember what time I got out of bed this morning. During the night we had thunder storms ...
By: BackBeat
Republican Leadership Stakeout Health Care Reform PODCAST VIDEO TEXT
2009-07-29 23:53:00 Republican Leadership Stakeout Health Care Reform PODCAST MP3 9.67 mb.FULL TEXT Transcript: Conference Chairman Pence: Good Morning, everyone.I'm Mike Pence, House Republican Conference Chairman, and we just concluded our weekly meeting of the House Republican Conference, with a special emphasis today on the debate over health care reform here in Washington, D.C. House Republicans support health care reform. It'll lower the cost of health care for every American and in particular, it will lower the cost of health insurance to small businesses, family farmers and working families. The Democrat plan for health care reform amounts to a government takeover of health care in this country, paid for with more than a trillion dollars in higher taxes and it must be opposed. Under the Democrat plan, according to independent analysis, you'll probably lose your health care and you might just lose your job.Rep. John Boehner, Rep. Marsha Blackburn , Rep. Eric Cantor, Gov. Haley Barbour, Rep. C...
Sarah Palin not yet ready to take on the Gipper?s Mantle
2009-07-10 19:36:00 It has been a week since Sarah Palin announced her intention to resign as Governor of Alaska later this month. As a Palin supporter, while somewhat sympathetic to her situation given the continuing assault from the media and their allies on the left, I am disappointed that this good woman decided not to tough it ...
By: GayPatriot
Euphoria Salon, East Brunswick, NJ ? A Business That Gets It
2009-07-09 20:38:00 How horrible is it that when we discover a business that operates with the utmost attention towards customer service that we recognize it as the exception to the norm? I have a dream that every business will be so customer centric that walking into a business that doesn’t give it their best shot will be unheard ...
Obama & Churchill: A Comparison
2009-07-01 23:18:00 In his short biography on the greatest man of the century just concluded, British historian John Keegan writes: It is now often thought that Churchill became prime minister because of the success of the German blitzkrieg, which produced the strategic catastrophe against which he had warned throughout the appeasement years. It is ironic, in retrospect, to ...
By: GayPatriot
Republican Leadership Stakeout Health Care and Energy 6/24/09 VIDEO
2009-06-25 01:00:00 House Republican Leaders are joined by Gov. Jim Douglas (R-VT) and Gov. Mike Rounds (R-SD) as they discuss health care and energy.Full Text Transcript:Republican Leader Boehner:We?re joined today by Governor Jim Douglas from Vermont and Governor Mike Rounds from South Dakota. They, like the American people, know that if the government gets involved in our health care we?re going to see nothing but rationed care, higher taxes and less quality in our health care delivery. So, it?s really important that we allow governors to have the flexibility to deal with this issue in their home states, and I think the governors will talk about that.But at 852 pages, the Democrat health care plan will do just the opposite. It is a complete government takeover of our health care system, which is going to lead to higher taxes, rationing and a lower quality in our health care system. House Republicans have a proposal we?ve put on the table that will provide affordable access to high quality health ins...
Obama?s Problem with the Unexpected
2009-06-23 09:54:00 I had printed out Michael Barone’s latest Examiner column, Dodge facts, skip details, govern Chicago-style, to read at the gym, but got caught up in the book I was reading that I neglected it until just before bed Monday night. Would it that I had read it earlier because he articulates a thesis similar to one ...
By: GayPatriot
Senator John Ensign Resigns Party Leadership Post After Admitting Affair VI
2009-06-19 00:27:00 Nevada Senator John Ensign resigned as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, the Senate's fourth-ranking party leadership position a day after admitting he had an extramarital affair with a campaign aide.Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement.?He?s accepted responsibility for his actions and apologized to his family and constituents, He offered, and I accepted, his resignation as chairman of the policy committee.?Senator Ensign?s spokeswoman, Jennifer Cooper, confirmed his resignation and said there was no further statement.
Leadership without power
2009-06-10 19:57:00 Hi guys, Can anyone help me to find some words and phrases for leadership without power?
Leadership is a Results Contest
2009-05-26 14:50:00 Guest Post By Tony JearyIf you go to Amazon.com and search in books using the word 'leadership' you get over 300,000 possibilities. If you are interested in getting a formal education in leadership, you can earn Phd or Masters degrees in such disciplines as Organizational Leadership, Change Leadership, Leadership Communication and others. You can even earn a Servant Leadership Certificate if you need one of those. The point is that leadership is a big subject and it means many different things to different people. The dictionary definition of the word lead is: To show the way by going in advance, and to guide or direct on a path. So, in its purest sense leadership engages the ability to do those two things.It's important to understand what the core issue of leadership is. By that I mean the most foundational issue of leadership that is easy to understand and easy to measure. One of the undeniable facts of leadership is that leaders are measured and subjected to criticism and scru...
Jennifer Rubin: How Obama Fails Leadership Test
2009-05-22 23:18:00 Writing about the President’s speech yesterday, Jennifer Rubin faults the Democrat for trying to “soothe all parties and charm even the most virulent foes of the United States” instead of setting a course and leading the nation: Leadership involves setting a course, persuading others to follow, and steeling oneself against the inevitable criticism with confidence that ...
By: GayPatriot
Jack Kemp: 1935-2009
2009-05-03 04:45:00 It it with great sorrow that I read the news this evening of the passing of former Congressman, Cabinet Secretary and VP Candidate Jack Kemp. He was one of the good guys in politics. Rest In Peace. I’m sure there is a touch football game in Heaven tonight. -Bruce (GayPatriot)
By: GayPatriot
P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1034: One Specific Leadership Concern
2009-05-02 18:43:00 P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1034: One Specific Leadership Concern And it’s the start of the time, the summer break, when there is very little to do or happen that it becomes somewhat difficult to be able to post something regularly. Well, that’s not exactly true; there’s still the last day of the leadership camp to talk about. Then again, there’s not much that can be ... By 'peacee0'
Republican Leadership Press Conference 4/28/09 VIDEO
2009-04-28 21:00:00 Boehner Statement on the President?s First 100 Days in Office Apr 28, 2009 Washington.Congressman John Boehner (R-West Chester) released the following statement on President Obama?s first 100 days in office:?America has lost more than two million jobs in the last three months, so this is no time for Democrats in Washington to be taking a victory lap. It?s time to hit the ?reset button? and for the Administration to begin keeping its promises of a ?new era of responsibility,? more transparency, and more bipartisan cooperation by working with Republicans to ensure that Washington is making the same sacrifices that families and small businesses are forced to make every day.?The President?s first 100 days can be summed up in three words: spending, taxing, and borrowing. While middle-class families and small businesses struggle during this economic crisis, the Administration and Democrats in Congress have spent more taxpayer dollars in 100 days than all previous presidents have spent c...
Obama and Ortega?s Anti-American Tirade
2009-04-19 19:18:00 Something struck me as incredibly self-serving, narcissistic even, when I read than in response to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s lengthy and angry tirade against the United States at the Summit of the Americas, the President of the United States responded, “You can?t blame the U.S. for every problem in this hemisphere. . . . I ...
By: GayPatriot
The Gay Marriage Debateand the Needed Overhaul of the Gay Leadership
2009-04-03 20:35:00 Last night, before the Iowa Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage was handed down, I scribbled a few notes outlining the things I wanted to blog on today. But, this medium being what it is, the news often gets in the way of the topics we might otherwise wish to address. One thing which I ...
By: GayPatriot
?Give Me Liberty, Or Give Me Death!?
2009-03-23 17:29:00 One of the original American patriots, Patrick Henry, delivered one of the greatest speeches in our nation’s history — 234 years ago today. (h/t - Casey Wright via Twitter) I can’t believe I have never posted this speech at GayPatriot before. Perhaps the time wasn’t right. Until now. ?No man thinks more highly than I do of ...
By: GayPatriot
Obama Gets One Right with FEMA Nominee
2009-03-05 02:40:00 Over the past decade, while the state of Florida has often been hit hard with hurricanes, few complaints were heard about the quality and speed of government relief efforts. Many have credited the immediate past governor of the Sunshine State, Jeb Bush, for his hurricane response program. Part of that good man’s administrative expertise was putting ...
By: GayPatriot
Osama?s fake military leadership
2009-03-04 08:46:00 Osama was not a major player in Russian-Afghan war. There was a fundamental cognitive gap between Afghans and Arabs. Afghans had peasant-gangster mentality. They switched between camps and villages, low-intensity fighting and farming. In a telling example, Afghan mujaheddin besieged Khowst for almost a decade. After the West and the Muslim world started pouring money ...
By: Samson Blinded
Corruption endemic under Sathya Sai Baba?s leadership
2009-02-25 12:54:00 The core of the organisation controlling and funding Sai Baba interests, the Sathya Sai Central Trust, is a tax and custom duty free institution by special allowance of the government. As a Charitable Trust it is not legally required to have any rules or guidelines. It is run entirely by the board, which always defers ...
Obama?s First Three Weeks:Neither Leader Nor New Kind of Politician
2009-02-12 02:42:00 By letting Congress cobble together the signature item of your first hundred days in office, the president has made clear that he’s not calling the shots in Washington. As Camille Paglia, one of his most enthusiastic supporters, put it, “To defer to the House of Representatives and let the bill be thrown together by cacophonous ...
By: GayPatriot
Leadership: 5 Facts Leadership Gurus Don?t Tell
2009-02-09 13:44:00 Leadership: the leader, the supervisor, the boss, the manager.. These titles (and others) describe people who are responsible for getting things accomplished by acting trough others.Leading can be a daunting task. In some ways it can be positively thrilling. Just as the freedom, responsibility, and respect start to lift you to cloud nine, the paranoia, fear, and anxiety can bring you crashing back down to earth!I have been a student of leadership for many years and even today, I am still learning! While I have read many books on the subject there are some things, leadership gurus? don?t cover, as much as we want them to. 1. The ?F? word isn?t easyFor most people, firing is not an easy thing to do. Those you must discharge, may have worked at a job for a long time. They may or may not have done their best. Either way, firing can mean they have loss of money, prestige, security and sense of self-worth. Still, if you are going to be true to yourself and to your organization as leader, ...
By: Enhance Life
Leadership: 5 Facts Leadership Gurus Don?t Tell
2009-02-09 13:44:00 Leadership: the leader, the supervisor, the boss, the manager.. These titles (and others) describe people who are responsible for getting things accomplished by acting trough others.Leading can be a daunting task. In some ways it can be positively thrilling. Just as the freedom, responsibility, and respect start to lift you to cloud nine, the paranoia, fear, and anxiety can bring you crashing back down to earth!I have been a student of leadership for many years and even today, I am still learning! While I have read many books on the subject there are some things, leadership gurus? don?t cover, as much as we want them to. 1. The ?F? word isn?t easyFor most people, firing is not an easy thing to do. Those you must discharge, may have worked at a job for a long time. They may or may not have done their best. Either way, firing can mean they have loss of money, prestige, security and sense of self-worth. Still, if you are going to be true to yourself and to your organization as leader, ...
By: Enhance Life
Leadership: 5 Facts Leadership Gurus Don’t Tell
2009-02-09 13:44:00 Leadership: the leader, the supervisor, the boss, the manager.. These titles (and others) describe people who are responsible for getting things accomplished by acting trough others.Leading can be a daunting task. In some ways it can be positively thrilling. Just as the freedom, responsibility, and respect start to lift you to cloud nine, the paranoia, fear, and anxiety can bring you crashing back down to earth!I have been a student of leadership for many years and even today, I am still learning! While I have read many books on the subject there are some things, leadership gurus’ don’t cover, as much as we want them to. 1. The ‘F’ word isn’t easyFor most people, firing is not an easy thing to do. Those you must discharge, may have worked at a job for a long time. They may or may not have done their best. Either way, firing can mean they have loss of money, prestige, security and sense of self-worth. Still, if you are going to be true to yourself and to your organization a...
By: Enhance Life
ATTENTION COLLEGE STUDENTS: YALE SUMMER LEADERSHIP PROGRAM ? APPLY BY FEBRU
2009-02-04 20:53:00 Here is an opportunity for those interested in pursuing an MBA: Yale?s new Pre-MBA Leadership Program is a fully funded, two-week, summer session (June 14 ? 27, 2009) for current sophomore, junior, and senior students of color and those committed to diversity in public and private management.
Treasury Secretary Geithner ? RESIGN NOW
2009-02-04 13:00:00 With Tom Daschle and Nancy Killefer withdrawing their nominations yesterday because they were too important of Americans to pay their taxes…. the time is NOW for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to step down. The rationale is that “only Geithner” can somehow stop the slide into the Second Great Depression, so he is too invaluable to lose ...
By: GayPatriot
On Israel & Iraq, Bush Stood Tall
2009-01-21 09:42:00 Eight years ago, about the time George W. Bush was sworn in, I recall telling a friend in my old synagogue that while I thought Bush would be a good president, I was concerned how he would be on Israel. His father, after all, had been quite a disappointment, appointing officials to the State ...
By: GayPatriot
What Obama can learn from Captain Sullenberger
2009-01-19 01:00:00 Last Thursday, Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III, demonstrated an essential quality of leadership when he calmly reacted to an unexpected crisis in the plane he was piloting. When his plane, US Airways flight 1549, hit a flock of geese, he had only few moments to decide how to react. Like Barack Obama in the fall ...
By: GayPatriot
India?s Painful Experience of Corrupt Leadership
2009-01-18 07:17:00 Listen to a wide cross-section of Indians ? whether Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Parsee, Jain, Christian and so on - and you will frequently find in them a thorough disgust for India's endemically corrupt, gerontocratic and nepotistic leaders right across the political spectrum. In India political leadership, too often, yesterday's men (or mostly men) are still today's men.
After What Seems Like A Decade Of Silence, G.O.P. Leadership Suddenly Cries
2008-12-28 03:53:00 RNC Chairman Mike Duncan Suddenly Indignant Over Extremely Cute And Funny Song I’m sorry folks — I may be a Liberal but I “get it“. “Barack The Magic Negro” (Click HERE to hear the song as played on the world-famous, draft-dodging, Liberal military personnel... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
McCain, Lieberman: Iraq Is Won, Praise Obama?s National Security Team
2008-12-21 18:30:00 With the symptoms and root cause of Bush Derangement Syndrome ending in a month, and the GOP moderates gellin’ behind Obama on foreign policy… is a consensus of Victory in Iraq possible? And will bipartisanship on the Global War On Terror be reborn? For the past several years, Iraq has divided and polarized our parties, our ...
By: GayPatriot
Domestic Violence? Church Leadership show perfect example of how they don'
2008-11-27 01:04:00 The Church Leader Gazette wrote an article about domestic violence, and some of it maybe comment sense, but the rest of it is nonsense!Men are definitely at fault in most cases of domestic violence. As welearned in elementary school, boys should not hit girls?a man should never hit a woman under any circumstances. But contrary to popular belief, women are oftentimes at fault by provoking the man. Some women provoke a negative response from their husbands inadvertently, because they do not know how to deal with a man probably because they never had a father in the home to teach them or they never had a mother, older sister or older woman to teach them how to handle a man. However, some women intentionally provoke their husbands by pushing buttons that they know will cause a negative reaction. First off, I know I have taught my son never to HIT anyone...except in self defense. There is no need for hitting, and to say that people PUSHED your buttons to do that? For goodness sakes! How ...
Quantum of Solace:Women in Leadership - a Woman’s Review
2008-11-15 15:56:00 On principle against the overt sexism, machismo, and "escapism" relationships with women, I avoided historical James Bond movies entirely, until in a moment of kindness, I agreed to see Daniel Craig's first Bond movie with my husband. Casino Royale was better than I expected and the women didn't seem to be such classic "play things" I thought I briefly witnessed in the earlier Bond films.On opening day, I once again found myself in front of Bond on screen in Quantum of Solace and found that I loved the movie. I enjoyed the complicated storyline and while the action scenes were abundant, they didn't last so long that I found my mind wandering too far from the story.I like Daniel Craig's portrayal of James Bond best in Quantum of Solace because he seemed powerful, intelligent, in control, and sophisticated without appearing smug and conceited. His performance is so convincing because he didn't even seem to be trying to be Bond – he just is Bond.But the actor that arrested me mo...
How Do You Regain High-tech Leadership?
2008-11-12 14:44:00 Strengthening the nation's technical know-how got short shrift in the presidential election campaign, as candidates focused on ways to shore up a sagging economy and fix the financial crisis. Yet statistics shows that high-tech imports to the U.S. are outstripping exports by some $60 billion this ye
Minority Leadership
2008-11-07 15:52:00 We’ve endorsed Michele Bachmann for higher positions in our recent posting about the future of the GOP congress, but it seems the only whispers of a challenge to Boner would come from the up-and-coming Republican from the state of Wisconsin, Paul Ryan. In the event that this be the only challenge to Boner, we obviously support it. Politico Link
By: postpolitical
Obama?s ?Coolness? Key to His Success?
2008-11-04 02:54:00 When John McCain suspended his candidacy last September to respond to the financial crisis, my gut feeling was that it was foolhardy. Later, as I read a few blogs, I saw the rationale behind it so that by the time I weighed in, I had “mixed feelings.” At the end of the day, I thought ...
By: GayPatriot
Center For Resource Solutions Announces 2008 Green Power Leadership Award W
2008-10-29 00:19:00 The U.S. Department of Energy and Center For Resource Solutions gave out awards at the 2008 National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference Oct 28,2008 in Orlando, FL Green Power Beacon Award * Portland General Electric (PGE), Launch of GreenPowerOregon.com Web site * Honorable Mention: Detroit Edison, GreenCurrents Ark Promotion Green Power Pilot Award * Energy Action Coalition, Campus Climate Challenge * Honorable ...
Two Views of Leadership
2008-10-20 21:11:00 While the Federal Liberals took a step further into the leadership void today, political junkies can fall back on some good news south of the border. The big news out of the US this weekend was the unequivocable endorsement of the Obama campaign by Gen. Colin Powell. In the words of the former Secretary of State, Barack Obama is "a 'transformational figure' who has reached out to all Americans with an inclusive campaign and displayed 'a steadiness, an intellectual curiosity' and 'a depth of knowledge' in his approach to the nation's problems." The Guardian has a great video compilation, audio clip and coverage of the announcement. Or you can watch Powell's complete endorsement via YouTube here:
Jay-Z - UNA 50th Annual Global Leadership Gala Speech
2008-10-03 23:09:00 Jay-Z was honored with a Global Leadership Award at the United Nations Association of the USA?s 2008 Global Leadership Awards gala at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York on Wednesday.The hip-hop mogul received the award for his visionary leadership of ?Water for Life? and his partnership with the United Nations.Pics: Jay-Z at UNA Global Leadership Awards
JAY-Z GETS GLOBAL LEADERSHIP AWARD
2008-10-02 21:23:00 Jay-Z was honored with a Global Leadership Award at the United Nations Association of the USA?s 2008 Global Leadership Awards gala at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York on Wednesday. The hip-hop mogul received the award for his visionary leadership of ?Water for Life? and his partnership with the United Nations.
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