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Many years ago while attending South Shore High School in Chicago, I learned about Junior Achievement and joined. After graduation, I attended NAJAC (the national conference) and then served as a counselor for the next six summers. JA played…
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According to several sources I checked out, almost four million men and women have thus far died or been wounded in combat while serving in the U.S. military. The American Civil War (1861-1865) remains the deadliest (750,000) followed by World…
Read MoreThe Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World Walter Kiechel III Harvard Business Press (2010) A unique aristocracy of iconoclasts Kiechel suggests that understanding what he calls the “strategy revolution” requires getting beyond three common…
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In some ways, our relationships with other people resemble plants in that they require ongoing nourishment or they will die from neglect. Doug Conant and Mette Norgaard are the co-authors of TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of…
Read MoreHere is a brief excerpt from an article by Gary Marcus for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Credit: Gérard DuBois * * * Science has a…
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Freeman Hrabowski III (president of University of Maryland, Baltimore County) in “The Corner Office”
Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Freeman Hrabowski III, president of…
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Life moves on with us or without us. The choice is ours.
In a recent blog post, Josh Linkner shares this anecdote: Two Zen monks were on a journey when they came to a riverbed. At the edge of the river was an elderly woman who was unable to cross the river…
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