Category Archives: Leadership

Profile: Julius Caesar

By | February 10, 2016

[February 10, 2016]  A recent discovery of ancient bones, weapons, and other combat gear from the First Century B.C. has shed new light on Julius Caesar’s conquest of what today is northern Europe.1  Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman statesman, general, author, and dictator.  His conquests on the battlefield and his subsequent political successes have made him famous… Read More »

Leadership: Ready, Aim, Fire

By | February 9, 2016

[February 9, 2016]  These pages could easily be filled with anecdotes of leaders who made a major decision without fully contemplating the requirements to do so.  Those failures, and sometimes successes, can be spectacular much like General Armstrong Custer’s decisions and subsequent massacre at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.  The lesson for leaders is: ready, aim, fire.… Read More »

Turning Boys into Men

By | February 8, 2016

[February 8, 2016]  If we look back to the time when the American Indian was strong in what is now the United States, they can be found devoting much of daily lives turning their young children into good men and women.  Turning boys into men was a particularly important affair since they would become the protectors of the… Read More »