Link: http://www.fastcompany.com/resources/talent/heffernan/012307.html

A belief -- and this is widespread --was that anyone from a large company will care a lot about the perks of corporate life: nice offices that have doors (we had fairly grotty offices and no doors), personal assistants (no one in my company had one), business class travel (even as CEO I flew steerage), and nice hotels. The corporate stereotype is as pronounced and pervasive as its counterpart. Entrepreneurs are routinely depicted as chaotic, adolescent rule-breakers who work through the night and live off of pizza, with little or no regard for thoroughness and process. The two images are so spectacularly polarized that never the twain shall meet.

Can they meet?
Is it really about what an individual has done in the past, or more about what they can do it the future?
One of my favourite sayings is to "never fall in love with potential" but don't you have to go there to some extent to truly understand what someone has to offer?
And the reasons they are changing tack, their choice or someone else's?
So many questions, so little time!!

Link: http://trax.fastcompany.com/k/w/mailman/fasttake/20070124/skills

Slideshow: | by Kevin Ohannessian
Business consultant Ram Charan lists the qualities of successful leaders in Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform From Those Who Don't. This is what Charan believes good leaders do.

Nothing new here really but worth revisiting, especially if 'life' is getting in the way of handling your Leadership duties.