Sometimes the most interesting stuff pops up on my screen over the weekend.  Here are some from this last weekend that you might want to check into as you start your week.

The stories from top business magazines and the business press include The Business Week 50, negative perceptions of woman bosses, the troubled mortgage industry, CEOs as directors, and family-founded public companies.

I also point you to new material on my site including an article on knowledge management, a book review of the Seven Day Weekend, and answers to questions about improving productivity, increasing innovation, and monitoring employees.

From Business Week: The Business Week 50
"The Business Week 50 represents our choice of the "best in class" from the 10 economic sectors that make up the S&P 500. These star performers in the class of 2007 are setting the agenda in their industries"

From SHRM Online: Negative Perceptions of Female Bosses Slowly Dying, Survey Shows
"The negative perception of female bosses dies hard, but gender stereotypes are changing, if a recent Work & Power survey of more than 60,000 people is any indication."

From the New York Times: Rising Trouble with Mortgages Clouds Dream of Owning Home
"Hundreds of thousands of families who bought houses in the last two years — using loans with low teaser interest rates and no down payments — are now losing them. Their short tenure as homeowners calls into question whether the nation’s long drive to increase homeownership — pushed by both public policy and financial innovations — has overstepped some boundary of demographic and economic sense."

From the Chicago Tribune: Fewer CEOs as directors: A disaster or a blessing?
"The number of active chief executives on corporate boards has declined dramatically since 1990 as board service has become far more time-consuming and risky in a post-Enron world of heightened scrutiny, a new study reports."

From the Economist: Our company right or wrong
"Founders and their families often exert extraordinary power over public companies, even when they own only a minority of the shares"

New on the Three Star Leadership Site
Book Review: Seven Day Weekend
Article: You can't manage knowledge
Updated Resource List: General Leadership Resources

Questions answered on the Great Supervisor Site
What neat, new techniques will help us improve the productivity of our teams?
How can we create a more laid back workplace so people will be more innovative?
Our company is considering a system to monitor all employee computers to make sure no one does anything they shouldn't. What do you think?

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