by Lance | Aug 28, 2006 | Leadership
The latest research on most admired professions has just been released. I won’t comment on the data as I am sure you will draw your own conclusions! The top five and bottom five occupations viewed as having’very great’ prestige: Top Five Firefighters...
by Lance | Aug 21, 2006 | Leadership
Following the UN Security Council resolution urging Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment activities within 30 days or else face further action from the international community, Javad Zarif, the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations, said: “Iran is a country...
by Lance | Aug 8, 2006 | Leadership
One of my dearest friends lives in Haifa, Israel. I have known him for nearly forty years and we have been very close. I have watched him grow two generations of families, spending time with them in many different parts of the world. I called him a couple of days ago...
by Lance | Jul 27, 2006 | Leadership
My PhD Thesis was an investigation into the sources of conflict in the Middle East and how they might be resolved. As you can see from the daily headlines, my impact was unnoticeable! Many of us view the current unfolding violence of the world with horror and alarm....
by Lance | Jul 18, 2006 | Leadership
James Madison, the 4th U.S. president, (1751-1836) observed that, “Of all the evils to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And...
by Lance | Jul 13, 2006 | Leadership
Tom Peters blog today has a wonderful interview with Joseph Finder, the Author of Killer Instinct. This is a fictional work about a salesman at an electronics company who is achieving middling performance until he hires a former Special Forces militiaman to work in...