No Paper

Ever wonder what Bill Gates has in his office: according to Fortune 500 April issue you need guess no more. For hardware: desktop and motion tablet PC both running MS Windows XP, three NEC 21-inch monitors syncronized with souped up video card, wireless mouse, logitech camera for videoconferencing; for software: (all MS, what else?) Outlook, SharePoint, Onenote, Communicator; there is absolutely no paper on his desk.

Founders Hall of Fame

Of Fortune 500 companies with founder-CEOs, the best 10-year average annual stock returns were: 1) Whole Foods ( John Mackey) 36.6%, 2) Kinder Morgan (Richard Kinder) 31.6%, 3) Capital One Financial (Richard Fairbank) 27.4%, EchoStar Communications (Charles Ergen) 24.9 %, and Apple Computer (Steven Jobs) 24.6%.

Leadership in Literature

MBA students need less quantitative tools and more good judgment and self-knowledge to make ethical decisions according to business ethicist Joseph Badaracco, Jr. Leaders need to embrace a more complex code of ethical behavior than they may have learned as children.