Recently, a very gifted track and field coach died. The last five years of his life had been difficult as he had battled lymphoma, but the last twenty years had been filled with controversy and disappointment. Charlie Frances was a Canadian coach whose star athlete was stripped of […]

According to a survey done for the Harvard  Kennedy School For Public Leadership, six factors or qualities determine whether or not Americans have confidence in their leaders.  These qualities are:

Trust
Competence
Working for the greater good
Shared values
Results
Being in touch with people’s needs and concerns.

A close examination of these six qualities reveals that these are character traits […]

Over the last three weeks Americans have carefully watched the stock market go up and down—primarily down—and in so doing have seen our financial value decline.  If you could quantify and qualify whether your character is of higher value than it was several weeks ago, how are you doing?
All of us would like to think […]