Current Affairs Articles

When Stephen Covey Made Me Really Mad: My Posthumous Apology

Stephen Covey made me really mad twenty years ago and it’s only recently that I’ve come to realize that he was right, I was wrong, and I owe him an apology. Covey, of course, passed away a few days ago, and so I clearly missed the opportunity to express my mea culpas...

Drill Sergeants With Heart? How The Military Is Reinventing Its Leadership For The 21st Century

If I asked you to conjure up an image of an Army (or Navy, Marine Corp, etc.) Drill Sergeant, I’m almost certain what you conceived would match up pretty closely to the photograph on the right. For generations, Drill Sergeants have been characterized by the intensity...

How 100 Super-Creative People Are About To Change Life As We Know It

“Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”                                        William James Fast Company Magazine recently published its annual list of the “100 Most Creative People In Business,” an assemblage of truly...

3 Reasons Why We Care So Much About A Bullied Bus Monitor And Why It Matters To Leaders Everywhere

Note: This blog also was published by FastCompany.com on June 26, 2012.   http://bit.ly/MQkfrS “Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”                                                      Fyodor Dostoevsky Karen Klein, a 68-year-old school...