General Leadership: Champions Don’t Take Shortcuts

My latest on General Leadership: A lesson every successful athlete learns quickly is champions don’t take shortcuts. Sure, an athlete can take performance enhancing drugs or try quick fixes, but those short term wins are usually overshadowed by long term defeats. The true champion, the one who everyone aspires to emulate and sports magazines profile, […]

Bacon Wisdom?

  Be very careful what you say. It might be what she said. Comedian Jeff Allen tells many stories to illustrate the old husband’s maxim “Happy Wife, Happy Life” (aka “Allen’s Law).  Patio King’s Corollary to Allen’s Law refers to the good husband’s judgement about when to open his mouth and when to just let it go. […]

Leaders Read

I’ve always been a reader: fiction, non-fiction, comic books–seriously, anything I can get my hands on. I think a person who is a steady consumer of books is opening their mind in a way that’s not possible any other way. Watching videos and listening to lectures has their place, but books are the gateway because […]

Malama i Ka Pono

The Hawaiian language is very beautiful, and it’s been a great pleasure to live here where I hear it spoken often. As a writer who loves words, the nuance in Hawaiian words and phrases inspires me. Words like aloha or ‘ohana have meanings much deeper than “hello/farewell” (aloha) and “family” (‘ohana), they also have contextual […]

In The News! – General Leadership

It’s been a lot of fun to write for GeneralLeadership.com, and I am part of a great team of leadership experts. Every time I visit the site I learn something new! Last month, Military Times wrote about us in our mission to bring military leadership lessons to the general public. Here’s a little about what […]

Leading Leaders Presentation

I was honored to present “Leading Leaders” as a professional development opportunity to Air Force Civil Engineer Center employees while I was visiting them to provide a Pacific Theater update. AFCEC Public Affairs recorded the event and posted it to YouTube, and I’m pleased to share it with you. My thanks to the men and women of […]