Focus Leadership Blog

Name: Carly Fiorina

Occupation: Former executive vice president at AT&T; former CEO of Hewlett-Packard; current Senate candidate

Career Highlights: Fiorina got a B.A. in philosophy and medieval history from Stanford University, wisely employing the strategy of pursuing two majors so fundamentally useless that they came back around to being essential. Post-Stanford, her schooling was more traditionally business-oriented: an MBA in marketing from the University of Maryland: College Park, then a ... Read More

Now that the first wave of Snowpocalypse 2010 is over, here's a Profile in Competence of former presidential candidate/current media-pilloried cad John Edwards.

Name: John Edwards

Occupation: Former U.S. Senator (NC), two-time presidential candidate, director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Career Highlights: The son of a mill worker, Edwards was the first person in his family to ... Read More

Dear Clients, Friends, Colleagues and Acquaintances,

You know our commitment to research around the FEBI and energy patterns, and this year we’re excited to launch a two-part study to make the FEBI even stronger and better understand its connection to another instrument, the NEO.

Which one of these 4 requests would get you to join us?

Click here to take the FEBI 2.0. I bet you don’t have what it takes to complete ... Read More

Name: Angela Merkel

Occupation: Chancellor of Germany; chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU); Chairwoman of the CDU-CSU (Christian Social Union)/

Career Highlights: As a student, Merkel was a member of the Socialist-led youth movement Free German Youth, and was active during her time at the Academy of Sciences. She describes her youth movement years as "cultural work," which must sound completely insane to American readers who would be pilloried ... Read More

Name: Sergio Marchionne

Occupation: CEO, Fiat SpA; CEO, Chrysler Group; Chairman of ACEA

Career Highlights: Sergio was born in Chieti, a town in southern Italy, and his family emigrated to Toronto when he was 13, explaining his dual Canadian and Italian citizenship. He went to college at the University of Toronto, earned his Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Windsor, and his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) came ... Read More