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A College-Dropout's Commencement Address

Apple's Steve Jobs showed up at Stanford over the weekend to deliver the 2005 commencement address to grads. (via Fast Company's blog)

Still Angry After All These Years

Many of the New Economy tenets Tom Peters espoused have fallen by the wayside. But this most famous of management thinkers wants you to know he remains riled--and relevant.

How Explorers Build Great Teams: From Lewis and Clark to Peter Hillary

The most recent edition of the Wharton Leadership Digest includes an article on how explorers such as Meriwether Lewis and Peter Hillary build great teams.

Hillary indicates that what matters is fostering the pioneer-explorer mindset. The attributes of such a mindset are

• a spirit of collaboration
• compatible skills
• a driving curiosity
• enthusiasm in the face of hardship (via Heath Row on Fast Company blog)

More Marcus...

Link - Marcus Buckingham teaches CEOs how to get the most out of their people and their organizations. His first lesson: Forget everything you think you know about being a leader.

The Clear Leader

Link - Marcus Buckingham spent two decades studying great business leaders. His conclusion: True leaders have a unique ability to make things simple.