It's About Leadership

In the Star Trek The Next Generation episode, titled "The Defector", Commander Data acts out a scene from "The Life of Henr...

One of the privileges I've had over the years, both as a senior leader and as an executive coach/consultant, is that I've had the op...

On December 5, 2013, the world lost one its truly great leaders - Nelson Mandela.  One of the most striking aspects of his life and his pas...

Cheating a bit here with this blog, but the article noted below was too good not to pass on.  Moreover, I happened to read the article th...

In my last blog before the end of 2013 I identified the challenge that most of us face in achieving our New Years resolutions.  ...

It's that time of year again when many of us make New Year's resolutions.  The turning of the page at the stroke of midnight on Dece...

I just recently read an article that suggested that the annual Christmas party was the one last best opportunity in the year to boost or sal...

Several weeks ago I was a guest at a retirement function of a long-standing leader of a prominent local organization.  Not surprisingly, the...

This past week was one of those weeks where a number of unrelated events came together to build a theme in my mind about leadership.  I'...

A lament that I've often heard from many leaders is "Why don't my staff get what we are trying to do?"  The context for th...

The title of this blog entry comes from an image my wife and I had an artist create for our daughter's room a few years ago.  This Latin...