May 27, 2018
The only thing new under the sun is the history you don’t know. Harry Truman I have serendipitously found myself in the midst of a three-volume bio of Joseph Stalin by starting with Volume Two without realizing it was part of a trilogy. The author is Stephen Kotkin of Princeton University and the Hoover Institution at…
May 14, 2018
I am reminded, as I turn 74 (May 24th), of the old TV shows back in the ‘50’s when people my age would be described – with great solicitousness – as “74 years YOUNG.” Ugh. I am a geezer and proud of it. There are an awful lot of people that crawled out of the…
May 9, 2018
Strengthen Your Leadership Leaders of all levels and walks of life engage with Jeff Campbell to better themselves and their organizations. Approachable and insightful, Jeff offers his expertise through several outlets including mentorship, coaching, speaking and facilitation. “I really feel like he understands what leaders are going through. He’s empathetic, but he’s also learning with…
April 17, 2018
In April 1961, John F. Kennedy had a really unpleasant – but enlightening – experience. The invasion of Cuba by a force of exiles from that unhappy island, which had been hatched and supported by the government of the United States, met disaster at a place called the Bay of Pigs. The event was a…
April 14, 2018
March 18, 2018
The Greeks had a word for it. Actually they had two words: techne and metis. The words describe two very real aspects of any personal skill set. One (techne) represents any pure technical skill like being able to cast a fly over a trout stream with grace and precision. It is a compound of muscle…
March 4, 2018
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