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10 Must-Read Social Media & Leadership Stories From June 21-25

1. Here’s some good advice: Be awesome at work everyday.

2. The most important leadership trait that you recognize, but often avoid.

3. Involved discussion on the future of publishing in the age of the iPad, the Kindle, and the Nook.

4. Leadership challenges and green hurdles in the hospitality business.

5. The business of fashion leadership. Uniqlo poised to take over the clothing retailer world.

6. How to conquer unproductivity and start getting things done.

7. Lifestyles of some of the world’s worst leaders dictators.

8. Meet your new co-worker, it’s a robot.

9. Leadership cartoon: How running your family like a business is a bad idea.

10. Youtube, in a nod to the 2010 World Cup, gets a Vuvuzela button.

Picture Credit: Veen

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Measuring Leadership: Ibrahim Index Fails to Find Good African Governance

Dr moThe Mo Ibrahim foundation gives away $5 million dollars annually to ex African leaders who practiced good governance. This year they couldn’t find a winner.

The foundation’s notion of “good governance” hinges on what they call the ‘Ibrahim Index of African Governance‘–a rating system that measures a range of issues from poverty to corruption.

The findings are meant to be a measuring stick of African progress . It’s the equivalent of the Fortune 500–it’s just on a political scale, with foggier data and dictators.