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Camelot, Inc: Leadership and Management Insights from King Arthur and the Round Table

Camelot, Inc: Leadership and Management Insights from King Arthur and the Round Table

This unprecedented review of Arthur's life illuminates many of today's most pressing leadership challenges, providing key insights and lessons.

2011

Paul Oestreicher

Paul Oestreicher

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False Equivalencies: The Danger of Treating All Information Equally

False equivalencies — presenting two sides of an argument as if they hold equal merit, even when one side is not grounded in facts — erode…

Dec 10

False Equivalencies: The Danger of Treating All Information Equally

Dec 10

The Failure of Joy: The 2024 Election and the Power of Fear

Democrats should spend less time blaming each other for their loss and more time on why Republicans won.

Nov 12

The Failure of Joy: The 2024 Election and the Power of Fear

Nov 12

Presidential Humor: 2024 Edition

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. — Eric Sevareid

Aug 21

Presidential Humor: 2024 Edition

Aug 21

The Power of Not Knowing

The importance of asking questions and being curious cannot be overstated. A Harvard Business Review article by Professors Allison Wood…

Jul 9

The Power of Not Knowing

Jul 9

The Abnormality of the New Normal

Over the past couple of decades, we’ve experienced events that created a so-called “new normal”: 9/11, the Great Recession, and COVID-19…

Jun 19

The Abnormality of the New Normal

Jun 19

1980: The Lesser-Known Inflection Point

There have been many inflection points in US history — events that significantly changed our future and behaviors — in the last hundred…

Jun 5

1980: The Lesser-Known Inflection Point

Jun 5

What Pfizer’s Super Bowl Ad Should Have Been

There’s been a lot of discussion around Pfizer’s decision to spend an estimated $14–21 million on its “Here’s to Science” Super Bowl ad…

Feb 15

What Pfizer’s Super Bowl Ad Should Have Been

Feb 15

Incremental Is Fundamental

Many of us are in occupations where innovation and creativity are essential. But an unnecessary divide exists between the valuation of…

Dec 5, 2023

Incremental Is Fundamental

Dec 5, 2023

Stopping Ourselves from Mattering Less

Oh boy, was I wrong. “Who needs these humanities requirements?” I asked as a college student. I was going to be a scientist and wanted to…

Aug 23, 2023

Stopping Ourselves from Mattering Less

Aug 23, 2023

Aaron Sorkin and I Have an Understanding

My eyes widened when I read the review in The New York Times. I was on the same page as Aaron Sorkin, writer of some of the most celebrated…

Apr 4, 2023

Aaron Sorkin and I Have an Understanding

Apr 4, 2023

Paul Oestreicher

Paul Oestreicher

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Strategic Communications; Corporate/Public Affairs; Issues, Crisis, Reputation Management, and Leader/Doer. Writer, advisor, and mentor. Author of Camelot, Inc.

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