I was doing a week of executive education with senior government leaders.  Many had military backgrounds.  In the middle of […]

My colleague Anjan Thakor and I are inviting HR leaders and executives to join an eight-week learning community at no […]

In an MBA class, we were discussing courage when one of the older students became animated.  She shared a personal […]

In a class, we considered a scene from Remember the Titans.  Coach Yoast is white.  Coach Boone is black.  Local […]

Occasionally I still engage people form the C-Suite in the process of team building.  I did this on three recent […]

Maslow studied self-actualizing people.  He said they had “a rare capacity to resolve value dichotomies.”  Then he wrote, “Duty cannot be contrasted […]

I have a friend who volunteers to work with prisoners.  He has a surprisingly high rate of success in helping […]

The movie Freedom Writers is about a teacher name Erin Gruwell.  She enters an impoverished school and eventually learns how […]

In criticizing the notion of leading from the positive lens, people often point out the dangers of optimistic self-deception.  Self-deception […]