Category: Blog
Stop and reflect: How would you react if this happened to you?
We are often so busy planning for tomorrow, planning for next week, next month and next year, that...
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A Balanced Perspective Means Overcoming the Echo Chamber
Whether you’re a first-time manager with five direct reports or a CEO with 50,000 people in the...
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Some Last-Minute 2026 Resolutions for our Political Leaders and for Ourselves
The year 2025 was another crazy year in the United States and around the world. All too often I...
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Happy Holidays and Good Luck with Your New Year Resolutions!
I hope you had a wonderful holiday season, and those celebrating Christmas, I hope you had a very...
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Santa Claus, Values-Based Leader
As the grandfather of two grandsons, I’ve been spending a lot of time reading Christmas classics...
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Three Days of Silence Every December: Why and What Do I Do?
OK, first why:There is one thing that is very clear to me: Every one of us has only 168 hours each...
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Feeling Overwhelmed by Economic Uncertainty? A Balanced Perspective Helps
As we come to the end of the year, there is no shortage of economic uncertainty. In conversations...
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Why Most Acquisitions Fail and How to Increase the Success Rate?
I hope everyone celebrating Thanksgiving had a great time with family and friends! One of my...
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Being Thankful and Paying It Forward
Paying it back. Paying it forward. Helping others. Making a difference. I hear these words every...
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What’s better than one grandchild? Two grandchildren!
This was a very big weekend for the Kraemer family! On Friday evening at 11:11 PM, Everett Thomas...
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The Second Edition of “From Values to Action”
Nearly fifteen years ago, at the encouragement of my students at Northwestern University’s...
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Halloween for an Excited Two-Year-Old Dinosaur, a 169-Hour Week, and an Amazing World Series
Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. First, when I was a child racing around the...
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