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		<title>Kurt Vonnegut &amp; Getting to Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Teenagers fall for Kurt Vonnegut because his books are short, his paragraphs are quick sentences, and he’s always poking fun at established institutions.
Vonnegut grabs you. His books call out to you in a real voice. Slaughterhouse 5, his seminal novel, begins with the line, “All this happened, more or less.”  Immediately, you trust the voice and immediately you’re hooked.
But Vonnegut didn’t trip into his success or stumble into his style. He slaved over it. And, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership in Higher Education: The Skills of Political Competence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my neighborhood job security meant working for AT&#38;T, teaching K-12, or joining the ranks or higher education. The latter career track came with the additional advantage of containing a bit of prestige. But there was also a sense of calling, a sense that you’d be serving some collective good by adding to the knowledge of society, and moving truly important agendas ahead.
You also entered higher ed because you felt it wouldn’t be a pressure ...]]></description>
		<link>http://sambacharach.com/bacharachblog/proactive-stories/leadership-in-higher-education-the-skills-of-political-competence/</link>
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		<title>Education Reform: Dead Ideas Can Come Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dead Ideas Sometimes Come Back to Life: The Case of Education Reform
Most of the 1980s I spent writing and researching schools and organizations. My work culminated in an edited volume entitled Education Reform: Making Sense of It All which had a forward written by governor&#8217;s William Clinton and Thomas Kean.
In the 90s I decided that my time had come to move on. It seemed academia and practitioners were engaging in the education reform business and ...]]></description>
		<link>http://sambacharach.com/bacharachblog/leader/dead-ideas-can-come-back/</link>
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		<title>Creative Leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leadership takes creativity sometimes. It can be scary, difficult, and distracting&#8211;but that&#8217;s also what makes it a great challenge.
In order to be creative, we&#8217;d be wise to turn to Tham Khai Meng, Worldwide Creative Director of Ogilvy. In the video below he doesn&#8217;t talk about leadership. Or management. Or organizational behavior. He talks about the unnerving process of coming up with fresh ideas.
Next time you&#8217;re face-to-face with a challenge try Mr. Meng&#8217;s approach. Take a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Paulson&#8217;s Loans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[$700 billion from the Trouble Asset Relief Program of 2008 was barely enough to insulate banks from their losses. By itself, TARP was insufficient to guarantee that US banks would not fail. Due to the regulatory conditions attached to TARP, banks who accepted the publicized bailout would have difficulty getting additional loans. Without additional capital, many US financial institutions would risk collapse. Paradoxically, banks could not ask congress for even more funds because TARP, already ...]]></description>
		<link>http://sambacharach.com/bacharachblog/leader/paulsons-loans/</link>
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		<title>David Stern&#8217;s Fight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leaders and organizations often go hand in hand. Sometimes it is hard to separate the man from the brand for obvious reasons (Henry Ford, William Chrysler) but there are other times when leaders are synonymous with the company they lead. One perfect example of this is the NBA’s David Stern. Stern did not invent the idea of organizing teams playing basketball for money, but in many ways he has perfected it. When he took over ...]]></description>
		<link>http://sambacharach.com/bacharachblog/leader/david-sterns-fight/</link>
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		<title>6 Leadership Lessons from the NBA Lockout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leadership is fundamentally about moving agendas  and sustaining momentum. It’s about vision and pragmatism. It’s about  the capacity to grab opportunities while maximizing gain.  It’s, as we argue on this blog, not about drama and not about charisma,  it’s about the nuts and bolts of execution.
The recent NBA lockout can teach us six lessons  about how to better lead and pursue your agenda while negotiating with  another party.
1. Know ...]]></description>
		<link>http://sambacharach.com/bacharachblog/leader/6-lessons-from-the-nba-lockout/</link>
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		<title>Leadership: Limos, Taxis &amp; Subways</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was sitting around having a discussion with three friends of mine: a young entrepreneur who’s just trying to figure out how to make it, a small business owner who tries to keep it going, and a CEO who is trying to master the universe.
We were just meeting for a cup of coffee on 7th avenue, but the conversation quickly spilled into leadership. It usually does when business people meet academics.
&#8220;You guys don&#8217;t understand&#8211;we ...]]></description>
		<link>http://sambacharach.com/bacharachblog/leader/leadership-limos-taxis-subways/</link>
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		<title>What Herman Cain Should Do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Herman Cain has recently been accused for sexual harassment while he was head of the National Restaurant Association. As of now, four women have come forward offering the media their side of the story which allegedly involves sexually suggestive remarks, gestures, and even an invitation to Cain’s apartment.
Cain began by pleading ignorance for three of the alleged cases and downplaying the incident for the other claiming that he was only commenting that the women was ...]]></description>
		<link>http://sambacharach.com/bacharachblog/leader/what-herman-cain-should-do/</link>
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		<title>Zuckerberg on Jobs (and a lot more!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past week Facebook’s creator Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg sat down with Charlie Rose for a wide-ranging interview about everything from their battles with Google, to the Arab Spring, to how Steve Jobs influenced Zuckerberg. The interview is a must see not just for those involved in the tech world, but also for everyone who is interested in the future of leadership.
Zuckerberg on Jobs and the entire Charlie Rose interview (video)
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