Putting Your Followers First

If you are going to lead people, you’d better demonstrate that you care more about them than you do about yourself. So says Don Knauss, Chief Executive Officer of Clorox.  Mr. Knauss was featured in Adam Bryant’s Corner Office in Sunday’s The New York Times....

MBA No Guarantee of Leadership Legacy

Jeremy Zimmer started working in gas stations when he was 14.  By 16 he was managing them.  He dropped out of college at 19.  “I was always a good worker, but I was never a very good student.”  He was running several valet parking stations in Boston. This snippet of a...

You’ll Need a Cool Knock

Once, having a master’s degree in healthcare administration was the golden ticket to a guaranteed job.  Not anymore.  A proliferation of graduate schools, some great, and more than a few that should be closed for failing to provide the quality education an indebted...