Social networking can’t be boiled down into neat bullet points. It’s an ever-changing, growing beast that started as cocktail parties and business organizations and has now spread to pretty much take over the Internet. That’s not a bad thing, necessarily (though it can be from a privacy standpoint).
Regardless, there’s one part of social networking that I think many people overlook, and that’s commenting. Sometimes I feel like social networking sites are a bunch of people thrown into a room, all yelling information about themselves…but no one is actually talking to one another. For social networking to work, there has to …read more

Many viewpoints and a lot to think about. My post on “Do Great Statesman Make Great Business Leaders” is worth reading for the comments and links especially those by Miki Saxon and Eric Eggertston. Eric wrote a follow up post with some good reader comments. Miki shared an enlightening post she wrote on “abusing the L word”, again with excellent comments on the issue.
We seem to allow position (CEO or Governor, for example) to define leadership instead of looking at characteristics, attributes and positiveness. The original impetus, Paul Johnson’s article in Imprimis, is worth reading to get a feel for …read more