Tim Geithner, Treasury secretary, may have too much on his plate according to today’s New York Times.
However, the NY Time’s picture heading the article says it all. Solid proactive leadership requires a focus on your ‘outgoing’ box. Worrying about a teetering ‘incoming’ box won’t produce results.

Here are last weeks best web based leadership & workplace articles:

Snappy Forbes article considers Obama’s 5 recent Leadership Lessons.
How to Procrastinate Like Leonardo Da Vinci. Looks like Leonardo wouldn’t get tenure.
The Foreign Policy Magazine takes a sharp look at the rise and potential conflict between two CCP leaders: Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang.
Free podcast from the Times UK by Debashis Chatterjee, professor of organizational behavior at the Indian Institute of Management.
Wal-Mart is still in the …

All too often the challenge for leaders is not the initiation of a new program, but rather that once initiated, that the program isn’t killed by inertia, bureaucratic minutia and indifference. The challenge for leaders, after initiating new programs, is to keep their eye on the ball, and keep the ball rolling. They must sustain momentum. Indeed, they must manage for momentum. They cannot simply drop the ball (i.e., launch new program …