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Watch brent as well. Were going to have more on oil and, of course, gold prices coming up in just a moment, that big play for safety, if you will. And jpmorgan and its ceo, jamie dimon, appear to be firmly in the governments crosshairs. Published reports say the government wants the bank to fork over more than 6 billion for its alleged role in the mortgage meltdown, but jpmorgan, they are pushing back. Were going to tell you what the bank told our own Elizabeth Macdonald today. Thats coming up l...

Wayne Lynn introduces his new “Smart Leader Insights” series with a preview of the articles to come in the next several months.

Florence Latham was bestowed a rare title, “mother,” for her long affiliation with a Lansing church and her impact on the community.

This week, we are publishing the content from Issue 4, the Leadership Issue. In this article, a preview of the week’s content.

This article is the third in the series on how to incorporate productivity improvement into your growth strategies for the foreseeable future. What approaches to improvement should you consider? This article has a list of five general groupings of ideas and recommendations. Hopefully, it will prompt the reader to generate even more. Building on a long-running theme, we continue to emphasize that improving the personal effectiveness of employees and improving business productivity overlap and wor...

In Wayne’s last article, he discussed the difficulty of growing your business in the environment we are dealing with today. Growth creates new jobs. These jobs will be difficult to fill. Improving productivity to offset the shortage of talent is becoming the primary path to growing your business. Wayne ended the article with five things for reader’s to consider to move in this direction. He discusses the first one, measuring the productivity of your company, in this article. Read on…

How to go about developing leaders is not well understood. Yes, there are certain types of  knowledge that is needed and relatively easy to come by. There are important skills that help the accomplishment of a leader’s objectives and there are many sources to drawn from to learn them. The right type of experience can play an important role and it’s typically not hard to discern If a developing leader has that or not. Most people, however, are not aware of a number of behavioral competencies...

Leadership is complex. There are many ways to look at and examine it in our efforts to understand what it is and what it does. There are three things that seem to be universal. It is about the interaction of leaders, followers, and the context within which they reside and operate. In this article, Wayne Lynn takes a look at this topic in an effort to start digging out what it is that makes leaders effective.

In previous articles, Wayne has discussed the worldwide issue of employee disengagement: what it is, what causes it, and how pervasive it is. This article begins a look at root causes. First up is poor leadership, which stems from poor decisions relative to who gets hired, promoted, and developed as leaders for the future. Effective leaders are the only people in an organization who can change the conditions that lead to disengagement.

A group of mentors and fellow members helped the young men develop into who they are today.