by Matthew | Mar 12, 2022 | Leadership
Harry Truman famously said of his successor Dwight Eisenhower shortly before Eisenhower took office: “Poor Ike, he won’t know what to do. He’ll sit here and bark orders but nobody will listen. It won’t be a thing like the Army.” Harry had...
by Matthew | Jan 5, 2022 | Ideas, Leadership, Writing
“What three people, living or dead, would you invite to a dinner party?” So goes a popular conversation starter. Sometimes the number varies, usually between having dinner with just one person or up to five or seven, but three seems like a good number....
by Matthew | Nov 22, 2021 | Leadership, Movies and TV, Sports
Mayberry, USA: Local sheriff calls his son out at the plate during a baseball game. Hometown crowd is furious. Politics is downstream from culture, so they say. And few parts of culture influence our perception of politics and government more than sports. From 19th...
by Matthew | Jan 7, 2021 | Leadership
William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?Roper: Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and...
by Matthew | Nov 9, 2020 | Leadership, Media
A partially knee-jerk reaction on the political scene. Is political polling dead? Short answer: probably not. Pollsters may expand their margins of error and modify their methods, but the allure of reducing policy questions to percentages of voters in favor or opposed...
by Matthew | Oct 13, 2020 | Leadership
The battle in the workplace was fought by men and women who desperately wanted to be treated with value. This was key to settling the strike, and became a key to everything I have done since. I am not an arbitrator, a mediator, or a negotiator. I am a peacemaker.Wayne...
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