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1. Jim Collins: On Leadership In America
   Chief Executive magazine interviews Jim Collins. This is the first of five parts.

   Author: Jim Collins | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Leadership

2. How to Build a Stronger Economy
   Jim Clifton, chief executive of Gallup Inc., has a robust theory about entrepreneurialism and economic recovery.

   Authors: Art Kleiner, Jim Clifton | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Economics, Entrepreneurship

3. How Your Hiring Process Could Predict Unethical Behavior
   Carnegie Mellon professor Taya Cohen explains the connection between moral character and workplace performance

   Authors: Laura W. Geller, Taya Cohen | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

4. How to Banish Bad Habits from Your Company
   Freek Vermeulen explains why unhelpful practices go unnoticed and suggests how rooting them out can help innovation.

   Authors: Freek Vermeulen, Jeremy Grant | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

5. Safe Enough to Try: An Interview with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh
   Organizations are more likely to innovate and thrive when they unleash the potential of individuals and the power of self-organizing teams, says the online retailer’s CEO.

   Authors: Aaron De Smet, Chris Gagnon, Tony Hsieh | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Innovation, Management, Organizational Behavior | Company: Zappos.com

Most Popular Thought Leader Posts

1. Aida Alvarez
   Former head of the Small Business Administration; former investment banker at Bear Stearns and First Boston

2. Jack Welch
   CEO of General Electric from 1981 to 2000

3. Charles Handy
   Charles Handy is Europe's best known and most influential management thinker. In an interview with Joel Kurtzman, editor of Strategy & Business, Mr. Handy elaborates on his concept of 'membership community' for the corporate model of the future. 'Corporations are not things, they are the people who run them,' he says. 'In order to hold people inside the corporation, we can't really talk about them … [ Read more ]

4. Michael Porter
   The Master of Strategy

5. Bill Gates
   includes sections on Hardware platforms, Linux, Research, and Flaming the DOJ

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