June 24, 2018
I was nearing the end of a public dialogue with faculty and students at the Cal State San Marcos College of Business Administration, when a graduating senior was picked to ask me one final question. The question was: “What upon reflection has been the biggest single lesson you’ve learned over your 40+ years in business?…
June 17, 2018
I have today only fleeting memories of the train ride up from Fayetteville through Washington to New York. I remember that the day was sunny and warm and I remember looking at the public buildings in Washington with a new fascination as they passed by the windows of the coach in which I rode. I…
June 10, 2018
It was the late fall of 1967 and I was an Officer Candidate at the U.S. Army’s Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia (affectionately known at the time by its inmates as “The Benning School For Boys”). In early December, we were taken to an unusual facility called the Leadership Reaction Course. On an otherwise…
June 3, 2018
Back in the 90’s, I did some hiking in northern Spain with a group led by Erik Perez (pictured), a skilled mountain climber and highly experienced guide for Sobek Mountain Travel. We were hiking in the Picos De Europa, the mountain range that skirts the northern rim of the province of Asturias and had just…