They were a decent and colorful pair. He a retired farmer. She his wife of many decades. We became friends when they moved to the small Arizona city in which we were living. One day we met on the street and in the course of the conversation he told me he had to take his...

I am putting together my next publishing venture, gathering material from past entries and creating a new self-training program for emerging leaders. It is called “Building Leaders From The Inside Out – A Course In Developing Leaders With Character.” In so doing, I’ve encountered some interesting feedback. One reviewer said that “The leader of a...

On September 29, 1982, twelve-year-old Mary Kellerman of Elk Grove Village, Illinois, died after taking a capsule of Extra-Strength Tylenol. Over the space of the next few days, six more would die the same way. Most predicted that Tylenol would never recover from the sabotage. But Johnson & Johnson handled the crisis ethically, with integrity....

They are well-known and they are hardly known. They work in the spotlight and they labor in obscurity. They achieve high levels of financial success and they barely scrape enough to get by. They garner large followings and connect with two or three. Who? Leaders. Superlative leaders! Leaders are everywhere in every place and at...

I received something in the mail a few days ago that troubles me. Not email, it was in my mailbox, something that gets little more than junk mail these days. This was a promotional piece for a non-profit organization I am connected to indirectly. Inside the mailing were copies of pieces handed out as part...