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The Leadership Tonic Scale identifies and defines five types of leadership styles found in today’s organization. This is the first of those five types. Come back and visit each day during the week of June 3, 2013 to find out the next leadership type as depicted in the Leadership Tonic Scale. The Moronic Leader The ‘Moronic Leader’ is the bottom feeder of the Leadership Tonic Scale. He believes ruthless command and control tactics are the basis in which to lead. He insists on perfection and micro-manages the actions and deliverables of his team at all times with equal parts vigor and insanity. When errors occur, team members are reprimanded whether privately or publicly in front of colleagues. Actual lashings may be utilized. When efforts from

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When I travel on business there are a few hotel conditions I live by: Don’t pick a hotel that was once a brothel Stay away from hotels that charge “by the hour” Ensure there are windows Hotels that offer ‘Happy Hour’ (but from 6pm – 2am) are generally to be avoided I was in Dallas, Texas recently and as I was speaking at the ASTD International Convention and Exhibition Conference I chose to stay at the Omni Hotels & Resorts Dallas hotel – located adjacent to the Dallas Convention Center. It’s a splendid hotel devoid of any of the bullets above. (it’s also devoid of bullets) My flight back to Vancouver was slated for 7am. Naturally, being the time management nutbar that I am, I

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  Steve Denning — one of those I look up to — was kind enough to include my book Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization as an example of recent literature that is helping to redefine leadership and management in the organization in his Forbes piece entitled, “The Management Revolution That’s Already Happening“. Alongside 17 other books, Steve deftly explains the management revolution is underway, and that the Creative Economy is becoming a reality. (at least for some organizations) As he says, “<a> coherent constellation of fundamentally different principles in leadership and management has emerged.” Well, at least some of us are writing about it. Flat Army contains a set of five frameworks for leaders AND the organization and when used in conjunction

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I’m not entirely certain what to make of this. I got wind of a news report from Channel NewsAsia entitled, “MBA for Children” where three to six-year olds are enrolling into a pseudo MBA program for toddlers. Over 100,000 children have graduated from this program in Shanghai alone at a cost of roughly $590 USD per student. Watch the clip below: Early on in the clip, a 6 year-old says, “I like to spend money when I was younger. Now I don’t.” Wow. What to make of this? It seems this MBA for Children program in Shanghai is a derivative of a company based in Colorado, USA called FasTracKids who claim “that a significant number of three to six-year-old children enrolled in FasTracKids improved their

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