First of all, I want to wish everyone a fantastic Father’s Day, a day to celebrate all of the living Dads, as well as the Dads no longer with us. It is a great day for reflection and giving thanks for both today and the past. This Father’s Day (this past Sunday, June 17th), my family and I had a
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I usually avoid getting into political discussions because the extreme partisan positions of many people make it almost impossible to have a truly BALANCED discussion. Values-based leaders truly need to understand all sides of the story. I strongly believe the words of St. Francis who taught us to “seek to understand before we are understood.” However, since I spend so
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One of the many reasons I love teaching is I realize that until I can explain something clearly to a bright group of people, I really don’t understand it as well as I think I do. Also, I love the questions students ask because they force me to really make things clear to them and myself. A few weeks ago
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I realize I have been slow to write posts, so I am recommitting to send them more often. I finished my last class for the Kellogg Winter quarter in Evanston, completed all of my grading, and now am on my way to Hong Kong to teach the joint executive MBA program for Kellogg and HKUST. This class is KH20 March
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When a true values-based leader passes away, it leaves an empty feeling for those fortunate to have had the opportunity to know them. That is what happened to me last Thursday night with the passing of Professor Walter Scott, better known to students, faculty, and almost everybody, as “Wally”. As I have shared frequently in previous posts, when I stepped
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As many of you know (and as I have blogged in the past), I have been doing a three-day silent retreat up in Lake Elmo, MN (near St. Paul, MN) every year at the beginning of December for the past 30 years. This year it is Dec 7-10. My father-in-law explained to me many years ago that this timing was perfect, and I gradually came
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Thanksgiving is clearly a time for self reflection and giving thanks. A friend asked me what I was personally most thankful for, and here is the note I sent him: “I took the time to SELF REFLECT on the question and realized I am truly thankful and grateful for 86,400 things — they are the number of seconds each of us
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