Senator and Hall-of-Fame athlete Bill Bradley once said:
“Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.”
Americans have great, perhaps excessive, faith in performance evaluation systems
in achieving this goal. Performance
I was the 4th choice for a job in a "dying" business from which I retired a CEO
30 years later.
People tend to look at any successful individual and believe
Relative to this subject, I was inspired by a great film and an op-ed piece in
The New York Times.
The film entitled Temple Grandin is based on the true story of Dr.
“Our occupational licensing laws are out of control. We need to fix them.”
So said blogger Andy Koenig in a wonderful essay entitled “It Takes 890 Days to
become a barber in Nevada,
Many American communities do a poor job providing mobility for the elderly, the
disabled and families with children in strollers. My wife and I are visiting her
Dad in Naples, Florida, where he
Our healthcare system is broken, but fixable, as I learned from meeting with
George Halvorson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Halvorson], an
exceptionally visionary healthcare leader.
He wrote an incredibly insightful book