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Topic: Ronald Reagan

  
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT   |  4 comments

Reagan Redux


Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Jun 9, 2004 at 11:39 AM

Amid the crush of Ronald Reagan tributes (they all go something like this: communicator + cold warrior + Iran-Contra = Reagan), I found an interesting paragraph in Time magazine's coverage: Under pressure from foreign competition, ...READ»

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FC CALENDAR   |  Comment

Fast History: In Epic Firing, Reagan Cans 11,000 Striking Air Traffic Controllers, 1981

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 3:15 PM

While the economy has stirred layoff fears across the globe, nothing in recent memory compares to this day 28 years ago, when President Ronald Reagan axed 11,359 striking air traffic controllers in one day. After crippling commercial ...READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

The Realist-Idealist Dilemma

BY James O'Toole
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:47 AM

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»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

The Price of Courage

BY Ryan Underwood
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:44 AM

Having trouble channeling your inner moxie? Or perhaps you just want the look of bravery. Five ideas for courage to go.READ»

LEISURE   |  Comment

Speedometer

BY Ryan Underwood
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:41 AM

Special summer-travel edition.READ»

Ivan Glickman
CAREERS   |  Comment

The Leading Edge - Instilling Confidence (Part 2)

BY Mark Goulston
Relevancy Score: 93
Thu Sep 4, 2008 at 10:53 AM

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»

BOOK DISCUSSIONS   |  Comment

Delegating Authority


Relevancy Score: 89
Tue Feb 28, 2006 at 10:10 AM

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out." --President Ronald Reagan From Fast Company's recently ...READ»

BOOK DISCUSSIONS   |  Comment

Delegating Authority


Relevancy Score: 89
Tue Feb 28, 2006 at 10:10 AM

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out." --President Ronald Reagan From Fast Company's recently released book, The ...READ»

BOOK DISCUSSIONS   |  Comment

Delegating Authority


Relevancy Score: 89
Tue Feb 28, 2006 at 10:10 AM

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out." --President Ronald Reagan From Fast Company's recently released book, The ...READ»

TRAVEL   |  Comment

(Air)Port of Call II

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 88
Mon Dec 22, 2003 at 10:45 AM

When traveling, sometimes all you need to do is drive a little to save a lot on airfare, parking, and other business travel expenses. Sunday's New York Times features an extremely useful look at smaller airports that might be better ...READ»

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE   |  1 comment

The Customer Is... Occasionally Wrong

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 53
Tue Oct 5, 2004 at 2:52 PM

Andra Madea, author of Conflict Unraveled: Fixing Problems at Work and in Families, highlights several ways in which customers may be difficult to work with. So doing, she describes the behaviors and characters of what she terms ...READ»

LEADERSHIP MENTORING   |  Comment

The Voice of Experience

BY Lucy McCauley and Christine Canabou
Relevancy Score: 51
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:27 AM

What's the best strategy for making it through a bad patch? The answer comes from 12 experienced business leaders who have been there, seen it, and made it through -- old pros who speak with the voice of experience.READ»

GLOBALIZATION   |  Comment

Feedback

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 47
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:50 AM

Letters. Updates. Advice.READ»

ETHICS   |  2 comments

Leadership Lessons from... WALL•E

BY Michael Waddell
Relevancy Score: 46
Fri Jul 18, 2008 at 10:09 PM

My family and I went to a Drive-In movie a couple of weeks ago and watched Pixar’s hit film WALL•E. I totally agree with Roger Ebert’s take on the film: He says that WALL•E “succeeds at being three things at once: an ...READ»

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STAR WARS   |  1 comment

The Empire Strikes Barack: Obama Cancels Europe's Star Wars Defense Shield

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 44
Fri Sep 18, 2009 at 11:22 AM

President Obama's just canceled a Bush-backed missile defense shield destined to protect Europe from Iranian ICBMs. It's a whole new ball game compared to the original "Star Wars" SDI program. Remember that? Let us remind you.READ»

Ivan Glickman
LEADERSHIP   |  1 comment

Leadership: Kick Back and Relax

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 44
Wed Aug 29, 2007 at 1:30 PM

The ability to relax! That’s what presidential historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin, advises as a necessary attribute of presidential leadership. Kearns, who consults for NBC and was speaking on Tim Russert’s CNBC show, presented a ...READ»

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How the President Leads

BY Anni Layne
Relevancy Score: 43
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:35 AM

Princeton professor Fred I. Greenstein has identified six qualities that play a big part in presidential job performance. Here's how leaders outside the political sphere can follow a chief-executive example.READ»

Ivan Glickman
LEADERSHIP   |  2 comments

Hillary's New Video

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 42
Mon Jan 22, 2007 at 12:49 PM

On Saturday, Hillary Clinton (finally) announced that she was running for president. In a video posted to her website, Senator Clinton, sitting in what looked like her living room, officially entered the '08 race. I always love to ...READ»

Ivan Glickman
CAREERS   |  Comment

Obama/Clinton - "It's 3 A.M. who ARE you going to call?"

BY Mark Goulston
Relevancy Score: 40
Sat Mar 1, 2008 at 12:34 PM

Hillary Clinton has thrown out an important challenge, namely, "It's 3 AM, you have a national security crisis on your hands, who do you want answering the phone?" I am anxious about Barack Obama picking up that phone, ...READ»

Ivan Glickman
CAREERS   |  Comment

The Leading Edge - Obama wins Potomac Primaries

BY Mark Goulston
Relevancy Score: 37
Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 12:14 AM

Say out loud, "Yes we can!" Then say out loud, "Ready on day one!" What do you notice? When you say, "Yes we can!" your mouth smiles at the end of that statement and the smile lasts beyond the ...READ»

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BRANIFF   |  1 comment

Ad Doc 'Art & Copy': The Real 'Mad Men'

BY Alissa Walker
Relevancy Score: 34
Mon Mar 23, 2009 at 6:43 PM

The documentary Art & Copy, the advertising documentary about the industry's creative greats and the campaigns that made them will have its New York premiere at IFC on Tuesday, May 5 as part of the One Club's Creative Week.READ»

WORK/LIFE   |  Comment

Work-Life Balance, a Sticky Situation

BY Tom Stern
Relevancy Score: 33
Fri Apr 6, 2007 at 7:21 AM

It’s the role of those of us in the blogosphere to make a connection where perhaps others would not see a connection at all. Such is the case today, April 6. For this was the day, back in 1938, that Teflon was invented. Roy J. ...READ»

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INNOVATION   |  7 comments

Devil's Food

BY Elizabeth Spiers
Relevancy Score: 30
Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 6:05 PM

Big Food wants everything bad to be good for you.READ»

CULTURAL   |  1 comment

Barack Obama: Can he Unite the World?

BY April Coley
Relevancy Score: 30
Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 9:52 PM

Super-delegate's: Why Barack Obama? I am originally from Buffalo, NY, however as a result of losing my mother at the age of 13 years old I relocated to North Carolina where I lived with my grandmother before going to college.  ...READ»

PHILANTHROPY   |  Comment

Culture

BY Anne Kreamer and Kurt Andersen
Relevancy Score: 30
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:36 AM

Anne Every morning as I read another dreary story of greed-head corporate malfeasance and insider arrogance, I remember two of my favorite pieces of satire. One is a comedy sketch starring Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live, where ...READ»

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