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Kenan Samms
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The Leading Edge - Election '08 - The Best Man for the Job is a Woman

I love flip-flopping as I look at the Presidential campaign through the lens of emotional intelligence. Maybe I should run for office. Here goes my current iteration. Obama is a charmer, not a fighter. Clinton is a ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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Careers: Prospects Heating Up for Climate-Change Managers

Today, the money fueling climate-change management is found in scientific research and government sponsored grants. But corporations may consider hiring climate-change managers to help them anticipate and mitigate the business impact ...READ»

How We Can Argue Better

“Presidential candidate George Bush will be active in making pronouncements in the coming weeks… He wants to define himself before his opponents do it for him,” intoned a radio commentator when the previous Bush became ...READ»

The Bush Health-Care Solution

No, not Dubya's. The president's first cousin Jonathan is an entrepreneur whose company, athenahealth, is trying to free doctors from the nightmare of insurance paperwork so they can get back to practicing medicine.READ»

Open to Debate

On Thursday night we'll get treated to some of the finest political oratory this land has to offer when John Kerry, tall and tan, dull and drab, squares off for the first time against George W. Bush, whose license to use the English ...READ»

If It Quacks Like a Duck...

In the current issue of New York, Kurt Andersen laments America's age of lame-duckism, "in which the discredited and obsolete and totally over shuffle around in the limelight for years after their sell-by dates." Andersen artfully ...READ»

Exec Meets Blog. Exec Falls in Love.

Execs are blogging about everything from war to kangaroo meat. But should you tune in?READ»

Continental Courage

Where do you find courage in this country? Not in the southern or western U.S., which overwhelming succumbed to the Bush campaign's fear mongering and Dick Cheney's demented suggestion that a vote for John Kerry is a vote for the ...READ»

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Comments and Criticism

It seems one comment can completely hijack a discussion. The first comment on my recent post about Dunkin' Donuts blasted middle-class Americans who voted for George Bush. That triggered a flame-fest between Bush haters and Bush ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Going Nucular

It's always bugged me that President Bush can't pronounce the word nuclear. I thought it was because I am a speech person, thus prone to being critical about such things. Until lately, however, the only people to call him on it ...READ»

Lead fast, lead slow?

I admit – I do enjoy reading (or skimming) management books. In my career, a few have been very helpful. Many are useful, helping to re-invigorate and focus as attention and time can be diverted by the mundane tasks of day to day ...READ»

A Final Thrilling Assignment: The Job of Your Life

A lot of ink was spilled recently on Wednesday's less than dramatic announcement of President Bush's space exploration agenda. Author and professor Paul Davies has among the most original suggestions for livening up the ...READ»

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Vote: The New Economy's First Campaign

This year, for the first time, the new economy and a presidential election collide. In exclusive interviews, Fast Company asks Al Gore and George Bush about growth, innovation, change, and leadership.READ»

To Be A Leader, Make Sure You Vote

Yesterday, the fate of Minnesota's Senate seat, undecided since the November election, was finally decided; the margin, out of 2.9 million votes cast, all of 312. Congratulations to Senator Al Franken. In 2000, George W. Bush's ...READ»

The Power of a Handwritten Note

I am working on a follow up book to Straight Talk for Success.  The working title is The Official Guide to Success.  I have been interviewing experts in each of the five keys to success that I discuss in Straight Talk: Self ...READ»

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The Realist-Idealist Dilemma

Is President Bush a man of principle or pragmatism? So far, he has vacillated between the two. But leaders can't have it both ways.READ»

Kenan Samms

Greenspan: Longevity, Defined

Eighteen years after a far less furrowed Ayn Rand acolyte named Alan Greenspan took over the Federal Reserve, the inscrutable chairman marked his final appearance before Congress today. This amazing longevity -- consider that he held ...READ»

Do-Not-Call List No Longer on Hold?

The back-and-forth waffling seems to be over. President Bush signed the do-not-call list into law today, paving the way for the FTC to establish the directory as planned -- and the FCC to enforce penalties because of recent federal ...READ»

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Vote or Die

No self-respecting marketer could possibly condone the way George W. Bush and John F. Kerry are spending their sales and marketing budgets. Even though record-breaking sums were lavished upon television commercials in the months ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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The Leading Edge - Instilling Confidence (Part 2)

A track record, my kingdom for a track record. In my last blog I spoke about leaders needing to engender trust, because when people trust they feel safe, lean towards you and are more willing to listen to you. When people don't ...READ»

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Is Increasing the Minimum Wage the Answer to the Right Question?

On Wednesday, Congress passed a bill 315-116 which would increase the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 in just over a two-year time frame. This, of course, assumes that the U.S. Senate can pass a similar bill that ultimately ...READ»

Why not Extraordinary Transparency?

Did you watch 60 Minutes last night? The primary news segment was about the CIA's Extraordinary Rendition program. Reportedly, they basically kidnap suspected terrorists and fly them to countries where torture is allowed, such as ...READ»

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No Way to Run a Business

Our monthly letter from the editor.READ»

Kenan Samms

"Sorry!" Is Not Just a Game

During the presidential campaign of 2004, when I was being called upon by the press to comment on candidates' communication styles, I was asked by Lester Holt on his MSNBC program for one suggestion for each candidate. I said that ...READ»

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United We Brand

In this month's issue, Linda Tischler writes that brands are less and less about what we buy, and more and more about who we are. Seeing as we're in between the Democratic and Republican national conventions in an increasingly ...READ»