“If a man does not master his circumstances, then he is bound to be mastered by them.” I recently finished reading A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles—a truly humorous and insightful novel. The story follows a wealthy Russian count who, in 1922, is sentenced to house...
We’ve just passed the time of year known as the Sports Equinox — that rare moment when all four major sports are still in play. It’s also when we get “Mr. November,” as Major League Baseball’s best battle it out to the very end. Hats off to the Los Angeles Dodgers for...
“Mother, don’t tell me that I can’t,” said our son Geoff Crittenden. I replied, “You can do anything you set your mind to doing, but at what level of pain?” That conversation (as deep as a high school mother–son chat can be) sparked a journey that took him to the...
If I asked you, “Who is the father of leadership?” Warren Bennis might not be the first name that comes to mind. Yet Peter Drucker, himself a highly influential thinker and writer on the subject of management theory and practice, once gave him that title—and Bennis...
There is no denying it. We see it everyday. Conflict is all around us. Operating in seething conflict appears to be the norm these days. Americans are navigating very fraught waters in politics and culture. Statistics show that the average employee spends 2.8 hours...
