This article, New Breed of Business Gurus Rises, in Monday's Wall Street Journal says that 3 of the top 5 business gurus are focused on issues of psychology. That means managing attention is what leaders want to learn about. The attention of one's employees is a leader's most scarce resource. When you learn to focus attention by the way you...

My life-long friend Stuart Cordell brought this piece to my attention when it was published about a month ago:  Why Learn and Grow on the Job? It's Much Easier to Feign Infallibility Jared Sandberg wrote it for his Wall Street Journal column Cubicle Culture. The essence of the article is that laying blame is a successful strategy for keeping one's...