True leadership is not defined solely by vision or authority, but by character. This central message resonated strongly at ...

It’s been said that character is what we do when we think no one is watching and how we treat people who can’t do us any good. As a careful observer of character for more than six decades, Robert L.

We used to expect our business and government leaders to have strength of character. Today that's been replaced by a moral vacuum ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. In 2024, I authored an NBJ article on what the “New ...

I’ve been writing about leadership for over three years now, since publishing my book on character-centered leadership: Breaking Ice & Breaking Glass: Leading in Uncharted Waters. Yet, I’ve not ...

It started, as many things in Oxford do, with a conversation after lunch. It was the spring of 2013, and a group of professors gathered in a college common room. Their discussion turned to a troubling ...

If you’ve been following my articles, you know I’m a long-time “Survivor” fan. I’ve watched every season since the show debuted, and it never fails to offer a crash course in human behavior, emotional ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Leadership research has long wrestled with a paradox. Many leaders who achieve rapid results ...

The political cauldron is boiling. Presidential and congressional candidates are in full campaign mode. Each candidate tries to persuade us they can guide us through the threatening storms of war, ...

(Then) Vice Admiral Stosz on the steps of the Pentagon presenting one of her coins to a child during a military families event. (Photo: Author’s personal collection.) As I progressed through my ...