[November 13, 2018] It’s been ages since I had a library card. A few days ago, with my wife leading the way, we traveled to our local free public library. They no longer have “library cards” but instead have one of those scannable electronic tags that you hang on your keychain; much like grocery stores do. Because we… Read More »
[September 16, 2018] Summer is passing quickly and it will not be long before the leaves fall from the trees and we start to experience the cool, dry air of early Autumn. This is a great time of year and gives everyone the chance to re-calibrate our reading habits and desires to learn more about lessons from the… Read More »
[August 23, 2018] It’s been a long summer and I’ve not been to the Jersey shore as I originally planned. My wife tells me that I must take responsibility for the failure and “man up” in those things I say I will do. Any person who is serious about a good life should understand their core values, prioritize… Read More »
[July 22, 2018] One of the very first characteristics of senior leaders highlighted here at www.theleadermaker.com was transparency. Any leader today, in a modern world with instant communications, must be transparent in their leadership skills, their behavior, and their decision making. Leaders must also be willing to admit the truth and seek the absolute truth because only through… Read More »
June 24, 2018] A common theme we find among great leaders in my Reading List is that they are quick to discover hard lessons of others and learn from them. Personally, I’m always on the lookout for those lessons in the books I read and was pleasantly surprised to find a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Edward J.… Read More »
[May 27, 2018] I know that it has far too long between book reviews but I couldn’t help it with all the recent activity on my leadership blog that kept me busier than expected. Plus, the real reason is that my wife and I just saw the arrival of our new granddaughter and that took us away from… Read More »
[April 14, 2018] It has been said that it is a person’s own mind, not the enemy or foe, which lures a person to evil ways. Evil (what it is and is not) is humankind’s greatest mystery which remains unresolved yet continues to be tenacious in its damage to countless civilizations. I often chuckle to myself when I… Read More »
[March 10, 2018] For months, after each return to the U.S. from a year-long tour of combat in Iraq, I would talk with folks and explain to them that it was “weird” to be back home. I would relay the similarities I had personally heard from other combat veterans from the War on Terror. My explanation to them… Read More »
[February 18, 2018] Clint Eastwood once said that “The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.” As documented in James Bradley’s popular Flags of Our Fathers (2000), Eastwood’s reference to the greatest generation was as much out of respect for their great accomplishments as it was… Read More »
[January 10, 2018] A philosopher once said that “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” But there are many ways to express the analysis of any history and that is what our writer today has done. World War II, as can be seen in the multitude of writings, is a complex and vast… Read More »