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Every year at this time writers, editors, and bloggers succumb to the primeval urge to create a best or worst list for the year just past. I've been scanning them for the last month and here are my picks. Some are serious, some are funny, and some think they're serious, but are really funny. I'm listing all but one without comment.

From Fortune: Dumbest moments in business 2010

From the Washington Post: Who is 2010 Leader of the Year?

From Portfolio: The Greatest Hits of 2010

From C4LPT: Jane Hart's Top 100 articles from 2010

From HBS Working Knowledge: HBS Faculty on 2010's Biggest Business Developments

From the Financial Post: The top 10 CEO departures of 2010

From Bert Decker: The Top Ten Best (and Worst) Communicators of 2010

From Business Week: 2010 in Review

From the NY Times: The Lives They Lived
"As 2010 comes to a close, we bring you our annual idiosyncratic collage of stories about people who died over the last year. Some of them were quite famous. Some lived primarily private lives. And most lived, by choice or circumstance, in the realm of the little-bit-famous. Though these essays do mark deaths, we like to think of them as a collection of narratives that celebrate lives."

This is my favorite of all the "looking back" lists because it reminds me of our humanity, the importance of relationships and the fragility of fame.

Boss's Bottom Line

Jack Welch had it right: "In the end, it's all about the people."

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