Thinking About Leadership

As I considered what to name this blog, I vacilated between using the word "can't" and "won't." I suppose that t...

It may be the most difficult thing in the world to do - to look someone in the eye and confront them with the truth (or at least the truth a...

This past week I came across a decison made at my university that I thought was a poor decision - the right answer seeemed so obvious to me,...

I recently returned from a four week vacation on the coast of Maine, where the orders of the day include a lot of reading - I prepare months...

Last week's post on convening people brought a few comments from others, mostly in terms of how important it is to be able to have the p...

This past week saw me calling together 3 different meetings of various peoples - meetings that were not regularly set but came up as a resul...

According to one of the books I have used in my Introduction to Business course, one of the functions of a manger is to "control."...