[December 24, 2021] America’s bumbling withdrawal from Afghanistan will forever remain a stain on our nation’s history. There are, however, honorable people today who are doing the right thing by helping protect many Afghans who assisted and helped us. The private organization Ark Salus is doing the work necessary to help those who helped us. A small group… Read More »
[December 23, 2021] Do you want to be one of the most successful marketing leaders today? Profound marketing expertise can help create the perfect strategy to drive and grow any business. Having spent over 240 billion dollars in 2019 on advertising alone, the United States is often referred to as the largest advertising market in the world. Business… Read More »
[December 13, 2021] A measure of a good leader is not their popularity or their intelligence, but their ability to convince others to achieve important goals and to get things accomplished (get ‘er done). Over the past year, there has been a growing consensus that Vice President Kamala Harris has failed to live up to the hype about… Read More »
[December 11, 2021] When you’re in senior management, you’re expected to excel in everything you do. From delegating tasks to accessing your team’s success- it all needs to be superlative. But, the one thing that you can’t expect to succeed without is definitely leadership. Your leadership skills are directly connected to your team’s success, reaching targets and goals,… Read More »
[December 2, 2021] During the U.S. Civil War, the early years were not going well for the Union under President Abraham Lincoln. Yet, his undertaking was designed to preserve the Union, and he strove to persuade, influence, incentivize, and communicate hope and resolve. What strategic lesson learned can we get from Lincoln’s actions? While most of us with… Read More »
[November 26, 2021] People have an intrinsic ability to call a hypocrite when they see one, and they see it in our news media. When I started this blog, I wrote on a “bias” in news media reporting. Their reporting was egregious, getting the facts wrong every time and unwilling to correct their “news,” which I call Media… Read More »
[November 13, 2021] Holding onto flawed ideas is not a way to achieve success in our lives. Yet, we continue to hold onto them, however ill-founded they are, stubbornly, painstakingly, and with great emotional attachment. We are comfortable doing so, yet intellectually we understand the disadvantages of what we do. This problem is why good leadership means committing… Read More »
[November 7, 2021] I know what you’re thinking; our education system in American is a target-rich environment for bashing. That is undoubtedly tempting, but my purpose here is to show a few reasons why school choice works and that mandatory public school education may not be the best path for the future of any country. We hear a… Read More »
[October 31, 2021] There will be a time when you must step up and be the target. Martin Luther, a Catholic Priest, nails 95 theses to the Castle Catholic Church door at Wittenburg, Germany, on this date, October 31, 1517. The Catholic Church was raising money to renovate St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. One of the ways they… Read More »
[October 21, 2021] Command Sergeant Majors (CSM) are the U.S. Army’s most senior enlisted soldiers and all our military services have an equivalent. They are highly respected and they give their wisdom and advice to senior commanders to help their units run smoothly. One CSM once gave me his thoughts on why there are so many weak leaders… Read More »