Kudos and Gaffes: Innovating Game Changer and a Leader Without a Team

Leadership Kudos this week go to Apple’s Steve Jobs for launching iCloud, yet another game changer from Apple. Look to Apple to enable you to store all your iTunes, books, movies, documents, on-line downloads and photos in one place as you move effortlessly from the iMac to iPad, iPod, and iPhone, which will make our mobile and stationery lives that much easier to navigate. Jobs’ latest breakthrough is a sharp rebuke to the security analysts and media pundits who were calling for Apple’s board to announce his successor when he began his latest medical leave earlier this year. Don’t count Jobs or Apple out quite yet.

Leadership Gaffes go this week to Newt Gingrich and his futile presidential campaign, as 16 of his top aides on campaign staff resign en masse. It’s hard to lead when you don’t have a team, and even harder to run for President from a cruise ship in the Greek Isles. Gingrich vows to forge on, but it’s time for him to return to writing and teaching.