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• Senate Rejects Cordray as CFPB Head

  By Claude R. Marx  |  December 8, 2011

  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau remains officially leaderless.

• If You Believe Work-Life Balance Is a Pipe Dream, You're Part of the Problem

  December 5, 2011

  Asking senior leaders to have an unrelenting, 300% focus on work to the detriment of all else is just not sustainable.

• Five Questions That Should Shape Any Change Program

  December 5, 2011

  Most organizations will shrink or disappear in the long term: only a third of excellent companies remain excellent for decades, and when organizations try to transform themselves, even fewer succeed.

• Three Ways to Overcome Career Anxiety

  December 5, 2011

  Young leaders face three main threats to their sense of happiness and well-being.

• Why Women Leaders Need Self-Confidence

  November 28, 2011

  Early in her career, Virginia M. Rometty, I.B.M.'s next chief executive, was offered a big job, but she felt she did not have enough experience. So she told the recruiter she needed time to think about it. That night, her husband asked her,"'Do you think a man would have ever answered...

• A Female-Dominated Workplace Won't Fix Everything

  November 15, 2011

  Men on the job must feel besieged.

• Put Your Best People on Your Most Boring Challenges

  November 15, 2011

  How do you get the best value from your best people over time?

• Five Reasons Companies Fail at Business Model Innovation

  October 25, 2011

  Business model innovation is the new strategic imperative—by now, this is becoming more generally acknowledged. But companies routinely fail at self-reinvention because they are so busy pedaling the bicycle of their current business models they leave no time, attention, or resources to design, prototype, and test new ones.

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  Jon Jeffreys Links Creativity, Opportunity With Collaboration

  By Myriam DiGiovanni  |  September 25, 2011

  For Jon Jeffreys, president of Credit Union Student Choice, credit union survival boils down to value and collaboration.

• Negotiate Where You Want to Get What You Want

  September 23, 2011

  Remember the last time you went to your boss to ask for a raise, a bonus, or an increase in your budget?