“Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.” Mark Twain Last year, a nationally-known business leader suggested I write a comic book on leadership. “Leaders don’t want to take the time to read a complicated book,” he said. “Provocative, short and simple – something they can read in dribs and drabs – that would be great.” When a leader’s attention span is short, does it reflect a fear of wasting time? Is it an indicator of garden-variety ADD? Or are more

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 addiction, he came home from work, had to pour himself a succession of drinks and couldn’t stop. For him, as an alcoholic, there was no decision, only compulsion. This simple example highlights the difference between capacity to choose (“I can”) and need to avoid (“I have no choice”). Lest you think alcoholics are unique in being compuls

“We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Declaration of Independence Adopted July 2, 1776 Exactly 238 years ago, Thomas Jefferson followed his authorship of the above words by calling slavery an “abominable crime.” Yet, he personally owned more than 600 slaves over the course of his lifetime. Jefferso