- Jena McGregor
- Post Leadership
Jena McGregor is the author of On Leadership’s Post Leadership blog, and former management editor at BusinessWeek.
John Boehner’s unenviable job
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If there’s one job in Washington no one wants right now, it’s John Boehner’s. Yet he appears, at least in part, to be succeeding.
A real ‘binder full of women’
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This year, Catalyst isn’t just reporting data on women in business leadership roles. It’s also hoping to do something about it.
Another pay bump for college presidents
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Some good may come from borrowing measurement tactics from the corporate world, but let’s hope universities don’t borrow its outsized pay increases.
Will DeMint’s departure make room for more pragmatic leaders?
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Wasn’t there a time when it would have seemed odd for someone to say that “leaving the Senate to become president of the Heritage Foundation is a big promotion?”
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