Management

Today’s WSJ takes a look at the future of Newsweek, which this week announced plans to shed roughly one-fifth of its staff.   It’s not pretty.  Toward the of the piece, the reporter describes a speech that Newsweek editor Jon Meacham (a good guy, a smart journalist, and an old friend) recently gave at Columbia University. Meacham “asked who […]

Incoming Bentley College president Gloria Cordes Larson says she wants her graduates to “be ethically grounded leaders who combine left brain analysis and business process skills with right brain qualities of creativity, empathy, and an appreciation for other perspectives.” (Source:  Boston Globe, 3/29/08)

One reason I decided to work for myself 11 years ago was to avoid going to meetings.   At one place I labored back in the early 90s, I was astonished to discover a few months into the job that several people did nothing except attend meetings.  I’d have stuff to do (“Ahhh!!!”), but they’d […]