Sometimes the lessons leaders need to learn come from comedy. In this case I’m reminded of a skit that was on Saturday Night Live in the 80’s. leaders / Pixabay In this particular skit, the priest went to see the mother superior because he’d been troubled by the behavior of some of the nuns recently. […]

I write about leadership all the time. Yet, in the last year or so I’ve had some people say that I don’t write enough about how to be a good leader, instead concentrating on pointing out bad leadership traits. It would be easy for me to counter that by showing them this post talking about […]

One of the problems of working for yourself is that you don’t have the same kind of daily interaction you do when you work in a traditional business. Having said that, one of the similar things you have when working for yourself is that often you feel as though you don’t have anyone you can […]

I’ve been lamenting for a long time the performance of our elected officials, and I mean almost all of them. I’m not overly pleased with what’s going on, and I’m not going to pick and choose who to blame. Instead, I’m going to castigate them as a whole for not doing what needs to be […]

Last week I met a guy I’ve known for a long time for lunch. I wanted to meet him because I’ve known him for a long time, and I know he’s struggled with his career. I had once mentioned an idea to him that I thought he could pull off well, based on the little […]