Serve to Lead identifies an emerging trend of 21st century leadership: private lives becoming interwoven with public lives. That trend is becoming ever more conspicuous. Where are we now? …
Coach Billy Fitzgerald | An Ecosystem of Excellence
The acclaimed Coach Billy Fitzgerald has retired. He is known, far and wide, simply as "Coach Fitz." His forty-year career as coach and teacher has left an extraordinary mark. I would have …
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21st Century Leadership at the Speed of Change
Are you leading at the speed of change? If not, then you're not leading at all. You're an incumbent—or a museum piece in the making. …
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Robert McNamara & ‘The Fog of War’
Without planning it, I've fallen into an annual custom of watching Errol Morris's memorable documentary, The Fog of War. On reflection, I would suggest that anyone with leadership or management …
Thinkers and Talkers and Doers
How often have you heard something like the following? —I’m a doer. I don’t spend time on books or academic thinking or intellectual stuff. That’s just a distraction from getting things …
Timing | Jon Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, the Beatles & Ronald Reagan
Jon Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, the Beatles, Ronald Reagan.... Very different people, alike in being compelling public performers. Each mastered a transition that so many get wrong: they knew when …
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