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Protocol versus Passion – EBOLA and the Doctors Without Borders Leadership Model

The EBOLA crisis is giving us a pointed lesson about leadership. On the one hand there’s a rules-based approach to addressing the crisis adopted by government and the US medical bureaucracy. On the other there’s the passion-based approach championed by the NGOs and particularly Doctors without Borders (donate to this great organization here). The p...

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The Ice-Bucket Challenge – Leadership for Sissies?

I’ve been watching all the celebrities getting involved in the ice-bucket challenge. It’s quite a sight. And you can’t gainsay the fact that so far it’s raised over $40 million for the fight against Lou Gehrig’s disease. That’s genuinely impressive. But isn’t the thinking behind it less so? The idea is that someone pours ice cold water over th...

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