McCain: Delaying Deal On Defense Cuts To Lame-Duck Session Would Be ‘A Disaster’

DEFCON Hill (TheHill.com) March 29, 2012 By Jeremy Herb Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Thursday that Republicans are “stretching out our hand” to Democrats to find a solution for stopping the $500 billion cuts to the defense budget set to take effect in January 2013. McCain and a group of Republican senators said that a …

16 Employee Idea Killers Your Management Team Could Be Committing

By Mike Brown Suppose you are part of your organization’s management team. The organization is trying to encourage an employee idea program so employees will come up with possibilities to improve your prospects, processes, and products. You really want to get employees involved generating and sharing ideas, but nothing is happening. That may be because …

Creativity Lessons from Charles Dickens and Steve Jobs by Anne Kreamer

Creativity is the most essential skill for navigating an increasingly complex world — or so said 1,500 CEOs across 60 countries in a recent survey by IBM. And yet federally funded research and development — creativity, institutionalized — is down 20% as a share of America's GDP since the late 1980s. Private R&D spending has also tailed off since …

Evaluate Everything with a Leadership Bias by Peter Borner

Leaders evaluate everything with a leadership bias according to The Law of Intuition; the 8th Law of John C. Maxwell’s 21 irrefutable Laws of Leadership. According to Maxwell the Law of Intuition separates great leaders from good ones. Great leaders use intuition to couple instinct with intangible factors like morale, momentum and relationship dynamics to read “what’s happening” …