The Missing Ingredient
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. - Confucius What’s the most...
View ArticleHow to Share Credit without Losing Any
I made a mistake when I was twenty years old that has stuck with me my whole career. It was the summer before my senior year at West Point and I was half-way across the world and half-way through a...
View Article3 Tips for Displacing False Beliefs
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them. – Anthony de Mello We talked a...
View Article3 Keys to Leading Yourself Well
The past ten days have been tough. In addition to trying to work and take care of my family, I’ve coordinated a cross-country move, closed on a new house, transported a canoe 345 miles, said goodbye to...
View ArticleMy 3 Core Values as a Leader
I have often thought the best way to define a man’s character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely...
View Article4 Ways to Set Your People Free
I was 21 years old the first time I handed my passport to an armed guard at a checkpoint and entered what the UN calls an Occupied Territory. It was the summer of ’95 and I was driving into the Gaza...
View Article5 Things You Could Learn from Military Leaders
I was stunned to learn that the unemployment rate among veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan is up to 12.1%. That’s more than 3% higher than the national average. The more I looked into it, the...
View ArticleAre You Making Tough Choices?
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke Earlier this week the NCAA imposed severe punitive sanctions against Penn State and their football program in...
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