When is it Best to Start Leadership Training?

[May 3, 2017]  Trick question!  In this leadership blog post today I will answer this trick question and point out what the biggest impediment to leadership improvement is today.  A goal we desire is to improve leadership at all levels of maturity.  So, when is it best to start leadership training? Often we think of leadership training in… Read More »

Core Values: University of California, Berkeley

[May 2, 2017]  Leadership is difficult – senior leadership is very difficult – but our ability to handle those indomitable challenges that comes as a part of leadership is a measure of our strength of character.  The University of California at Berkeley is both an organization that today faces great challenges and yet has historically been successful by… Read More »

Wussies Joining the U.S. Army: by Army Vet

By | May 1, 2017

[May 1, 2017]  Army Vet writes today about how WUSSIES are joining the U.S. Army in overwhelming numbers and what’s it doing to reduce military readiness My best buddy called me earlier this week to complain – no, yell profanities – about so many ‘wussies’ joining the United States Army; pushing the limit of our basic training resources… Read More »

Good Leaders Fix Responsibility … by design

By | April 30, 2017

[April 30, 2017]  Winston Churchill once said that “the price of greatness is responsibility.”  Of course it is.  Not only do great leaders accept responsibility, they actively seek it out and are nourished by the challenges that a position of accountability and dependability brings. Leadership also means possessing the skills to fix specific responsibilities on others.  Note that… Read More »

North Korea: Kim Jong Un is at it Again

By | April 28, 2017

[April 28, 2017]  How do you measure a successful strategy?  That is one of the major issues over changing United States’ policies toward North Korea.  Over the past several weeks, the socialist dictator Kim Jong Un has followed a well-known successful strategy of using verbose and vitriolic rhetoric, threatening the community of nations, and showing resolve in the… Read More »

Learning Leadership through Stories

By | April 26, 2017

[April 26, 2017]  My grandmother enthralled us with riveting stories of bravery, tragedy, and love of family in her travels across the Great Plains of the American Midwest.  She was just a girl when her parents and siblings began their journey in a Conestoga wagon pulled slowly by two large horses.  This was something us grandkids had only… Read More »

Who Was Georges Thenault?

By | April 24, 2017

[April 24, 2017]  The thumbnail picture gives some hint to the identity of this man Georges Thenault.  Americans won’t know the name but will recognize his story as Captain Thenault commander of the Lafayette Escadrille;1 a French organization made up mostly of American fighter pilots during World War I. The few American pilots of the Lafayette Escadrille (Escadrille… Read More »