I don’t often write short posts, but this one qualifies as one of the shortest articles I’ve written in 16 years. Photo by Julien Maculan on Unsplash The date was 9/11/01; the time was 8:46AM. The stock market was supposed to open that day; it didn’t. Other than holidays or weekends, the stock market had […]

About 4 or 5 years ago on the anniversary of this date, September 11th, and the planes flying into both the Twin Towers in NYC and the Pentagon, and of course the plane that went down in Pennsylvania, some guy on Facebook (who I didn’t know well and have never spoken to again) commented on […]

You’d think after 14 years that the thing with the falling of the World Trade Center Twin Towers, the plane that crashed into the Pentagon and the other plane that a group of heroic people made fall in Pennsylvania, giving up their lives for the lives of others, would get easier to deal with. Nope; […]

Often when I talk about leadership, I like to say that everyone can be a leader, and at some point in every person’s life they’ve had a chance to be a leader, and have either taken that opportunity or let it go. Sometimes, the option is to either be heroic or be a victim. Sometimes, […]