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November 01, 2006 01:50 PM EST -- When Barack Obama challenged himself by becoming a community organizer in the Chicago slums rather than go to law school, he very nearly lost the challenge. In the end, he won through, and his risky path . . . more
October 30, 2006 10:07 AM EST -- When Barack Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983, he could have done anything he wanted. His mother and grandparents advised him to go to law school. His friends were landing jobs on Wall Street . . . more
October 25, 2006 02:05 PM EDT -- This year's graduating seniors at Northwestern University heard three great leadership lessons from their commencement speaker, Illinois Senator Barack Obama. The lessons came from his own extraordinary . . . more
October 10, 2006 01:16 PM EDT -- Apologies to all for the lack of new postings to the Leadership Group in the last few weeks.  My mother passed away unexpectedly on September 22 after suffering a massive brain aneurysm. We will resume . . . more
September 12, 2006 10:24 AM EDT -- As the Iraq war grinds deeper into its fourth year with sectarian strife increasing, not abating, and with more and more U.S. servicemen and women dying in -- not departing from -- that nation, I find . . . more
August 17, 2006 09:28 AM EDT -- Something is seriously wrong in the boardrooms and executive suites in this country. Our leaders are failing us. While dedicated American men and women are putting their lives at risk in the Middle East, . . . more
July 18, 2006 10:23 AM EDT -- When you turn on the television on a Sunday afternoon and see perennial champion Tiger Woods plying the preternaturally green fairway at Augusta, you're not thinking "Ah, history." You're . . . more
July 14, 2006 06:52 AM EDT -- Nearly a decade ago, Larry Bossidy, the much respected, now retired chairman and chief executive officer of Honeywell and co-author of The New York Times bestseller Execution, stood before a packed audience . . . more
June 14, 2006 06:07 AM EDT -- In the weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani picked his favorite leadership books. On his list of five . . . 1.  Churchill by Geoffrey Best 2.  . . . more
May 25, 2006 02:27 PM EDT -- I'm Donna Carpenter, and welcome to the Picture This group. I think of Picture This as the place where thousands of words give way to great pictures. Here's where we can share favorite photos, . . . more
 
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