The Man Who Has It All

Monday, December 7, 2009
Tiger Woods takes the phrase to a new level.
What is “The American Dream” anyway? Generally, it involves a house, a car, job security, a family, a neighborhood, a good reputation, social standing and physical wellbeing. The order of priority would be a matter of personal preference, I suppose. In [...]

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Decade Horribilis

Monday, November 30, 2009
Queen Elizabeth addressed the Parliament in November 1992.  It was the fortieth year of her reign; a time for Kingdom celebration.  But in that formal room filled with specialists in the art of the stiff upper lip, she wearily announced to all that it had been indeed an annus horribilis. Hardly the [...]

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Double Bird Strike

Monday, January 19, 2009

Alas – we needed some good news.  And we got it. 
Flight 1549 left the runway at LaGuardia as I was having lunch with a friend here in California this week.  A few minutes later, I got a text message from CNN – BREAKING NEWS – something about an airliner in the frigid [...]

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Striped Pajamas

Monday December 1, 2008

When a pampered little boy in clean clothes and groomed hair parks himself outside the barbed wire fence of a Concentration Camp somewhere in a forest clearing in Nazi Germany, he meets an eight year old born the same year.  They strike up an unlikely friendship.   One is confined.  The other free.  [...]

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National Day of Prayer

Monday Morning, September 22, 2008
You may not have heard about the perfect storm that blew through the coastline of our economic system this week, unless you read the newspaper or watched cable or listened to the radio or tuned in the Evening News.  The headlines are everywhere.  Some called it “9/11 of Wall Street.”  Others, [...]

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Hockey Moms and Pit Bulls

Monday Morning – September 8, 2008
In this new world of changing political landscapes, Hockey Moms and Soccer Moms are pretty much synonymous.  The notion that either would be different from pit-bulls in only one respect – lipstick – is enough to put a non-partisan smile on just about anyone’s face.  The difference between hockey and [...]

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Farewell, Beijing

Monday Morning – August 24, 2008
Maybe the Olympics were that much more stunning simply because so many of us watched it in high definition.  We’ve had high def for a while now, but those images from China were made for the big screen.  The Bird’s Nest filled the pixels with dazzling color; it was the [...]

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Gone fishin’…

No LeaderFOCUS this week.  See you next Monday.

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Returning to The Shack

Monday, July 14, 2008
One of the unpleasant realities of the onset of aging is that truckload of errors and omissions that you think were properly buried and forgotten long ago.  They’re not, really.  They come back and haunt us old guys; sometimes unexpectedly.  Usually with some degree of pain.
Robert Boyd Munger wrote a little book [...]

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Gone fishin’

There will be no LeaderFOCUS this week… Monday morning, June 2.
I’m on Keats Island with a collection of executive leaders from all over North America and beyond.  I”ll pick up with another edition of LeaderFOCUS next week.
It’s still Monday morning.  And you are a leader.

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