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In defense of Chuck Hagel: Why the nomination has the support it needs
As Washington debates the merits of Obama’s pick, the troops stand behind one of their own.
The year’s best leadership moments
The instances of leadership done right are few and far between, but here are five that stood out in 2012.
Does it pay to know your type?
Companies, agencies and colleges love the Myers-Briggs personality test. Many psychologists don’t.
Improving the Department of Transportation
A conversation with Ray LaHood about his efforts to turn around employee engagement.
The five worst CEOs of 2012
Let’s not waste the chance to learn from the corporate world’s many management mistakes.
Staying focused on the goal at HHS
Leading a complex agency requires a talent for building support and a committment to innovation.
Doris Kearns Goodwin on life, death and the presidency
Goodwin compares Obama’s and Lincoln’s leadership, and reflects on what it means to be a historian.
Moral values and the fiscal cliff
It may seem counterintuitive, but our political leaders should avoid using the word “compromise” too often.
Want to support the troops? Give them good military leaders
We’ve run into a situation where we care more about the sex lives of generals than the real lives of soldiers.
More from Leadership Columnist Jena McGregor
Ask the Fed Coach
The few places where job satisfaction in government is up
If your agency has been struggling to improve employee commitment, take a look at these examples.
The Reading List
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11 books every leader should read
Bob Sutton Work Matters -
General failure
The Atlantic -
100 top global leaders 2012
Foreign Policy -
Suckers for superheroes
New York Magazine -
Lucrative consulting fees hit bigger set
Wall Street Journal -
Mapping a path out of Steve Jobs’s shadow
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Research Round-up
Human-rights activist Rosana Schaack on leadership
Pearlstein signs off of weekly column
Columnist will contribute to The Post’s Wonkblog and write more magazine-like pieces for the paper.”
A union battle whose time has passed
COLUMN | Movement got its start at the bottom of economic ladder, and might need to return there.”
With natural gas tax, everyone can win
COLUMN | The potential windfall from such a tax could benefit U.S. taxpayers and still let gas companies make a profit.”
Recent leadership roundtables
Jena McGregor
Jena McGregor
Jena McGregor
How we judge men’s vs. women’s mistakes
A recent study suggests maybe we’re not so judgmental about the gender of our leaders after all.
Jena McGregor
Women in tech dominate Fortune’s annual power ranking
An industry we tend to associate with men produced the most ‘powerful women.’
Leadership Books
Winning with Transglobal Leadership
The authors offer the inevitable global leadership basics, but they present these core concepts in a succinct, relevant way.
The Upside of a Downturn
Geoff Colvin proposes 10 strategies for the post-recession world. Unfortunately, some of them haven’t held up.
Fixing the Game
Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management and a life-long sports enthusiast, writes about the 2008 mortgage meltdown — and the NFL.
The Extraordinary Coach
Managers who try to coach their employees often make wrongheaded assumptions about what their staffers think.
Open Leadership
Charlene Li, co-author of Groundswell, moves you into tomorrow’s world of business connections.
Q&As
- Leadership author Laura Vanderkam
- U.S. Forest Service’s Tom Tidwell
- Leadership author Jim Kouzes
- NHTSA’s David Strickland
- Leadership author Geoff Smart
- FERC’s Jon Wellinghoff
- Department of Education’sJoanne Weiss
- Department of Agriculture’s Elisabeth Hagen
- Small Business Administration’s Marie Johns
- Department of Veterans Affairs’ Peter Levin
- GovLoop’s Steve Ressler
- CPSC’s Inez Moore Tenenbaum
- USTDA’s Leocadia Zak
- Naval Sea System Command’s Brian Persons
- US Fish and Wildlife Services’ Daniel Ashe
- FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg
- NASA’s Patrick Scheuermann
- Department of Energy’s Michael Kane
- FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz
- GPO CEO Davita Vance-Cooks
- National Science Foundation’s Subra Suresh
- Baylor basketball coach Kim Mulkey
- Google Chairman Eric Schmidt
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