Thinking About Leadership

It has been twelve weeks since I last penned a blog.  Over the past ten years, the longest I believe I ever went without writing a Friday Mo...

As I was reading through the book Lincoln's Lieutenants by Stephen Sears over the past several weeks, I was struck by the complete inade...

I am currently reading Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa , a memoir of her life on a farm in Kenya during the first part of the 20th century....

Over the past month my organization has been making decisions around next year's budget (we are on a July 1 - June 30 fiscal year).  Wha...

Last evening, I ran into two friends who are quickly becoming known as a "power couple," an indication that the work they do toget...

Whenever I visit Chicago (my location this morning as I write this blog) my thoughts go to my life-long obsession with the Chicago Cubs and ...

When the going gets tough, the tough get going...and when the going gets tough, the weak just go away.  At least that has been my experience...