In a time when public discourse is generally at an objectively low standard, we've had several recent reminders of the power of words. …
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By James Strock
In a time when public discourse is generally at an objectively low standard, we've had several recent reminders of the power of words. …
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By James Strock
One layer [of Churchill’s character and personality] was certainly seventeenth century. The eighteenth century in him is obvious. There was the nineteenth century, and a large slice, of course, of the …
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By James Strock
Serve to Lead makes much of the relationship between leadership and art. In the end, what is leadership, but performance art? Effective leaders often possess notable acting skills. Great actors may …
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By James Strock
The anniversary of TR's birthday, October 27th, is an appropriate time to commemorate his historic leadership. …
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Edmund Morris met great expectations with Colonel Roosevelt, the third and final volume of his biography of the Rough Rider. …
By James Strock
What is a leader’s greatest legacy? With the passage of time, even the greatest accomplishments can be forgotten or overtaken by subsequent events. What one generation reveres, another overlooks—or …
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“There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of great and generous emotion, of the high pride, the stern belief, the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder… It is war-worn Hotspur, spent with hard fighting, he of the many errors and valiant end, over whose memory we love to linger, not over the memory of the young lord who ‘but for the vile guns would have been a valiant soldier.'”
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”
Who Am I Serving?
How Can I Best Serve?
Am I Making My Unique Contribution?
What Am I Becoming?
“History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. People get the history they deserve.”