Friends, I saw the most amazing thing in Yellowstone Park last week. Perhaps you have seen it. There was a tremendous fire in 1988 and thousands of acres of trees were lost. Twenty years later you can still see the signs: hacked off, perfectly straight logpole pines dot the landscape; forty feet high with no … Continued
Friends, This week, a man in his early 80s told me that he thought this was the most uncertain week he had experienced since he was a young man during World War II. He pointed to many aspects of this great volatility: Hurricane Ike, Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy; governmental takeovers of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and … Continued
Friends, Fat!So? Hmmm. This past Saturday, on my radio show Everyday Leadership: Making Work Work, Marilyn Wann talked about the unfair treatment of fat people at work. She’s no whiner. She is the author of a book, magazine and website, which all go by the name of Fat!So? (Note: Avoid her website if you can’t … Continued
Friends, A few partisans will broil at this one. A few cynics will call me an idiot. I promise you, you won’t hear the following from any candidate or party, and you probably won’t hear it from the “mainstream media,” the “right-wing media” or the “liberal media.” But I think this election offers us cause … Continued
Friends, I wrote last week about the passing of my friend Colin Hubbell and was reminded of his “best self” everyday leadership as I stood at the foot of the Mackinac Bridge in the Upper Peninsula, just before sunrise yesterday. I was talking with two of the women who had been selected to run the … Continued