Archive for June 2009

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Jun '09

Supreme Punting

There was some hullabaloo yesterday about the Supreme Court ruling in the discrimination case of Ricci v. DeStefano. The mainstream media did a fine job of obfuscating facts in an attempt to breathe new life into what had become an almost dead controversy surrounding Obama’s nomination of Judge Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Selling newspapers [...]

Assembling Talent, Insights & Opinions by Michael Schutzler
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Jun '09

Leadership is not about you – Ahmadinejad as an object lesson

Most successful leaders begin their careers yearning for success, fame, power, or wealth. There is nothing unusual about this motivation as a starting point, but our decisions and actions as leaders are intertwined with the lives of those we lead. Leadership is an intricate web of relationships. Build them and you succeed. Break them and [...]

Harnessing Ambition, Insights & Opinions by Michael Schutzler
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19
Jun '09

Of stinger missiles and sheep testicles

In the 1980’s I had the pleasure of travelling all over the Middle East.  Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Egypt, etc.  Among the many interesting projects I worked on, I was particularly in love with a crazy experiment to slurp radar data from AWACS, E2C, and missile systems in the forward area (that’s where [...]

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17
Jun '09

Book Review: More Than A Minute

Holly is a friend of mine and a talented strategy faciliator. She is a highly qualified authority on management techniques after serving for many years as a consultant to major corporations around the world.
Holly reprises and enhances the original tools for supervisors and executives explored in The One Minute Manager more than 25 years ago by [...]

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17
Jun '09

Iran Case Study: Power & Leadership

The situation in Iran serves as a sharp object lesson. Every leader at every level in every organization faces the test of power. The best will will use the power of their position to create a better world, even if it means sacrificing themselves. The mediocre will use that power to retain their position.
The situation [...]

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12
Jun '09

Naked in Helsinki

As a young man, I had often heard tales of the hearty Finnish appetite for vodka, for cross country skiing, and for swimming in icy waters. They all seemed like tall tales to me. Oh how wrong you can be.
When I was working for Real Networks a few years back, I was fortunate enough to [...]

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10
Jun '09

Book Reviews for Inspiring Excellence

This new take on leadership as a learned behavior is now available on amazon.com  They have it online and it is fully searchable.  So far, the book has received strong endorsements.
Jeff Seely CEO  Recruiting.com
I’ve read a number of management science/behavior books (many!) and I found Schutzler’s book to be a useful, refreshing and insightful read. He [...]

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Jun '09

Michael Vick Deserves A Second Chance

 
 Tens of millions of people are glued to their televisions every autumn to cheer their  favorite NFL team to hit, shove, and grind their opponents into the dirt. We openly and  eagerly celebrate the physical spectacle of football—a sport that rewards the most agile of  men with the roar of 100,000 adoring fans while brutally [...]

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