Can you imagine telling your boss that you deserve a raise because you come to work on time every day? Or that she shouldn’t fire you for poor performance because you tried really, really hard? Last week on Leadership’s Future a young man named Andrew started a conversation. During it he...

I’ve always had a sneaking suspicion that as important as hard work, good planning, etc., are, there was something else at work in my life. Something outside of my control and I wanted to know what it was. I finally decided it was luck—definitely outside my control. I wrote recently abut how...

Would you like to work for a company where the 401K matching on 5% of salary is as much as 11%? Where you can become a manager earning $62,000 plus bonus and company car with no college degree, no Union, no trade—nothing but hard work. Of course, you’ll have to put up with snickers and even ...

I found a great quote on JD Prickett’s blog by Harvard’s Roland Barth. “Show me a school whose inhabitants constantly examine the school’s culture and work to transform it into one hospitable to sustained human learning, and I’ll show you students who graduate with both...

I came across the kind of commentary that so angers me. The post was about how to recognize leadership traits in children. Of course, parents should encourage their children to grow, but this type of thing furthers the myth of what to look for in those who become ‘leaders’, while those w...

If you didn’t read yesterday’s post, the story of Christian ethicist and professor Tom Killian and his presidential meeting to decide the fate of Moonbase Asimov, read it first and then come back to this post. So, what did Tom Killian tell the president’s advisory committee? As a C...