PARTIVCareer and Personal Advicefrom the Top

One topic has dominated the world of fad-laden business publications and training for the past 25 years: “Leadership.” Like Hollywood sequels, leadership is a topic that seems to be a box office hit year after year. From Tom Peters (In Search of Excellence), to Ken Blanchard (The One Minute Manager), to Jim Collins (Good to Great), to Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner (The Leadership Challenge), there is a seemingly insatiable appetite for research data, Harvard studies, even parables (Spencer Johnson’s Who Moved My Cheese) about how to lead. Perhaps this is because each year a new crop of MBAs charges onto the playing fields of business with one burning question, “What the hell do I do now?”

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