Who are the 21st century leaders? Where can we find them? The premise—stated or unstated—is that there's a leadership gap today. Who can argue against the spectacular failures of leadership …
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Serve and Be Served
Churchill Birthday | Sir Isaiah Berlin on ‘the largest life’
November 30 is the anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill's birth. …
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10 Winston Churchill Leadership Lessons
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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Lincoln Thanksgiving Proclamation
Amid the tremendous challenges facing the United States at the moment, it's useful to recall the origination of the now-familiar holiday. Abraham Lincoln established it in the dark hours of the Civil …
13 Leadership Lessons World War I
The Great War of 1914-18—it became the First World War only in tragic retrospect—was the seminal event of the 20th century. Its after-effects reverberate in our day. One might argue that the 20th …