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Scott Brown & the Massachusetts Election: Leadership Lessons for Obama

By Prasad | Published: January 21, 2010

Scott Brown’s victory in the Massachusetts elections may have put health care reform in jeopardy, but it holds some important leadership lessons for President Obama. Despite Barack Obama being a great communicator, he is demonstrating a tremendous lack of communicative leadership intelligence. On the presidential campaign, his speeches inspired hope in large audiences across America, [...]

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A Pygmalion approach to pricing a service

By Prasad | Published: December 30, 2009

Pricing is always a tricky problem where a service like training or teaching is concerned, because marginal price (i.e. the price to serve one additional customer) is almost zero (as with most informational goods). How much more does it cost you to teach 51 students when you’re already teaching 50? Economics teaches us that in [...]

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Warren Buffet, Goldman Sachs, & Leadership Intelligences

By Prasad | Published: September 24, 2008

Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that as recently as in March, Warren Buffet wrote to his shareholders expressing disdain for Wall Street firms, “You only learn who has been swimming naked when the tide goes out–and what we are witnessing at some of our large financial institutions is an ugly sight.” And yet, today’s WSJ reports [...]

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