"We all are born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as, how we were raised. We're k...

Presidential candidates and op-ed writers often lament the lack of leaders, as if entire generations of Americans were born without the ski...

Leadership does not just begin with vision. It begins with getting people to confront the brutal facts and to act on the implications . - Ji...

“You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.” - Noam Chomsky 72% of Republicans said they would support Sarah Pali...

For once, we weren't meeting for a meal. Bernard wanted to walk on this gorgeous day and I was more than game. It was chamber of commerc...

Every successful candidate allows allows the polity to project upon him as he (or she) nods and smiles. So, to interpret Obama now is as muc...

“What if leadership is not a phenomenon determined by the ability of an individual? What if the leader does not actually cause outcomes? Wha...

In this final chapter, I simply declare that just as it would be good for a person living in Itay to speak Italian, so it would be good for ...

For me, the measure of progress is autonomy. People with cars are more advanced than people who only have shoes because people with cars hav...

It's time for a truly practical warning system for the American people: the error alert level. Instead of the rankings of low, guarded, ...

This from the BBC : President Bush is seeking to redeem the Vietnam War. He has tried to turn conventional wisdom about that war (that it wa...

Too often, we trust only members of our own culture. This is particularly problematic when we're stuck in a dysfunctional culture in nee...

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." - Soren Kierkegaard I've tended to write a great deal about autonomy. To me, it seems l...

“Do we decide questions at all? We decide answers no doubt, but surely the questions decide us.” - Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland “Human ...

Leadership suggests two things. One, you are going someplace new. Two, you have followers. By definition, leaders can't look to their fo...

Life is full of possibilities, most which we don’t even consider. It's Friday and tonight you could read a book and enjoy it thoroughly....