January 1, 2015 One of the highlights of 2014 was my December 4th visit to the United States Military Academy at West Point. At the...

A privileged dimension of my work with organizational leaders is the daily opportunity to hear real-life stories about how people respond...

To business owners and leaders: You say, “The business is important, but the family is more important.” That’s a good-sounding motto, but...

I spent the hot summer days of my early teen years painting our three story house. From the upper rungs of a ladder, I swatted away wasps...

“Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.” Mark Twain Last year, a nationally-known business leader suggested I write a...

When I get home from work and decide to have a drink, I am not demonstrating alcoholism. When my long-time friend, Alan, was in active...

“We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable...

A man I’ll call Andrew Erickson, a 50-year-old executive, told me he outworks just about everybody he knows. The other day, his sister...

For most, major decisions are a fact of life. Impactful life decisions include the following: Do I want to pursue college education or...

Emotional cutoff refers to the process of reactively separating, isolating, withdrawing, running away from or denying the importance of a...