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Excellent post on the changing face of leadership - Peter A. Mello

Four simple steps helped Navy Seals improve their probability of passing an extremely rigorous training program. (Goal Setting - Mental Rehearsal - Self Talk - Arousal Control) - Peter A. Mello

Wish I had written this first but Leslie Grossman, Co-founder, Women's Leadership Exchange has a great piece on the Huffington Post about what we can learn about leadership from the 2009 World Series Champion New York Yankees - Peter A. Mello

Amazing story about the fall from grace by a another high profile leader. - Peter A. Mello

Bruce Wasserstein, CEO of Lazard Ltd. and a giant Wall Street personality died suddenly on Oct. 14, 2009. According to the article author Dennis K. Berman, there is no one to fill his shoes which completes a shift in how business is done on Wall Street. "A jumble of ego, smarts and audacity, Mr. Wasserstein boasted in 1987 of his plans to "transform Wall Street." He slipped onto magazine covers before his clients did. He made billions along the way. But today there is no heir. And that's because no one wants there to be." Time will tell. - Peter A. Mello

In an attempt to return to the foundational values that MIT was built on “Mens et Manus,’’ meaning "mind and hand," a new program has been developed to help young engineers hone their people/leadership skills too. - Peter A. Mello

Adam Bryant interviews IDEO, ceo, Tim Brown for the Sunday NY Times Corner Office column. - Peter A. Mello

Great piece by David Silverman about wrestling and beating the demons of failure that all leaders face. - Peter A. Mello

Adam Byant of the NY Times Corner Office column does an interesting interview with Carol Bartz, Yahoo CEO. I liked the story about the snake. - Peter A. Mello

Pretty basic but worth reading. - Peter A. Mello

Interesting insights from 3 leadership thinkers/writers on a new Nobel Prize for Leadership especially after President Obama receives one for Peace. - Peter A. Mello

Waly Bock's Three Star Leadership Blog has an interesting take on President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize and corporate America's high potentials - Peter A. Mello

Endurance will be what it takes to get through all of posts on this ginormous list of leadership blogging. Excellent resource. - Peter A. Mello

Great post about talking yourself to and beyond your own anticipated limits by Mike Friesen, founder of Leading Strategies LLC and guest blogger for Mountain State University LeaderTalk - Peter A. Mello

Interesting post by Marty Linsky of Cambridge Leadership Associates about optimsim, realism and human behavior in leadership. - Peter A. Mello

Short article with link to CNBC video with GM CEO Fritz Henderson about the company's post bankruptcy culture changes. - Peter A. Mello

Interesting article about the transient, public, political face of leadership from the NY Times Military Memo - Peter A. Mello

Great resources - Peter A. Mello

Of seven personal characteristics, Americans rate Barack Obama most highly for those that reflect on his leadership skills. Seventy-two percent say he "is willing to make hard decisions," and 66% describe him as "a strong and decisive leader." Sixty-four percent say he "can get things done." - Peter A. Mello

This Great Leadership blog post is just another reason this website should be required reading for all students of leadership. - Peter A. Mello

60-70% of leadership is common for any effective leaders - from a bootstrapping entrepreneur to a leader at a large organization. By synthesizing their work the authors identified five rules to decode leadership. - Peter A. Mello

After a decade under the same leadership, Stanford's Graduate School of Business has a new dean in office this year. Garth Saloner stepped into the role this month, replacing former dean, Bob Joss. A Stanford faculty member for the past 19 years, Mr. Saloner oversaw the curriculum redesign of the MBA program two years ago as head of a special task force. - Peter A. Mello

Interesting article about the leadership culture change underway at GM. Wall Street Journal Sept 8, 2009 - Peter A. Mello

Another demonstration of using a crisis as a catalyst for change. Adaptive leadership exercised in education. Wall Street Journal Sept 9, 2009 - Peter A. Mello

Interesting research about multitasking. What's the implication for leadership? - Peter A. Mello

Wordpress needs no introduction. It powerful, highly popular and have a huge community providing loads of free and premium themes and plugins. Still you may fell like creating your own themes or plugins could be fun or a way to get the functionality - Peter A. Mello

great presentation by Nina Simon at Museum Association of NY, March 2009 - Peter A. Mello

Still a long way to go from 7000 to 42 though. :) - Alex Scoble

Happy Birthday Thomas. My son was born 03/03/03 so he turned 6 today. He's an avid photographer too! - Peter A. Mello from twhirl

Great list of leadership blogs. - Peter A. Mello

From Confessions of an ACA Fan - The Offficial Weblog of Henry Jenkins - Peter A. Mello