Determined and Dependable CEOs Win the Day

David Brooks of the New York Times had this to say yesterday:
In other words, warm, flexible, team-oriented and empathetic people are less likely to thrive as C.E.O.’s. Organized, dogged, anal-retentive and slightly boring people are more likely to thrive.
These results are consistent with a lot of work that’s been done over the past few decades. [...]

Get the First Two Chapters of Trust is Everything Free!

We are still in the early stages of marketing our book , even though we published it last spring, simply because we’ve been busy doing our jobs as professors, raising our children, and other important activities.  We are currently looking for a literary agent and a mainstream publisher.  To get the word out further, we [...]

A big benefit of a coach: your own personal listener

It takes time and energy for others to listen to our concerns. It takes even more effort for them to listen to us carefully and help us reflect on what we are trying to say. This is where a coach can be helpful to you. A good coach is a good listener.
A [...]

George Washington: Truly the Father of our Country

A great essay by Thomas Fleming in the Wall Street Journal recently on George Washington reminded yet again of the genius and humility of our nation’s first President. He truly exemplified the courage and humility so essential to great leadership:

Washington then drew from his coat a parchment copy of his appointment as commander in [...]