Thinking About Leadership

I am a fanatic for studying Abraham Lincoln’s leadership – I try to read most of what I can get my hands on, and attempt to keep up with the...

Upon reading Sinclair Lewis’ Main Street (written in 1920), I became intrigued by the question of who should determine and/or introduce cha...

I just returned from a Strengths Quest conference, where we learned about implementing this assessment tool with our freshmen this coming f...

Interesting conversation this week about directness and trust. I had someone tell me that they appreciated the fact that I could be direct w...

I am thinkng these days about creating an advisory board made up entirely of people under thirty. As I have recently celebrated year 50 of m...

Leaders know how to ask the right questions. Our picture of leaders is often the one standing up front, making a speech or telling people w...

This past Saturday at our CTX graduation, Rev. John Nunes of Lutheran World Relief , referred to our President Tom Cedel as a "man who...