The Daily Dozen

Unique Leadership Axiom: The Daily Dozen adds life to your years and years to your life.

Polished Shoes Save Lives

Unique Leadership Axiom: When your life is on the line your habits will save you.
In boot camp old habits die and new habits are born. It’s common for civilians to believe that boot camp is all about squashing initiative. In fact boot camp is about building initiative. Initiative is built on a foundation of self-knowledge. [...]

Presidential Training Wheels

The Rock In My ShoeWe all have training wheels provided us by the evolution of the species. One-trial-learning, which I refer to as training wheels, helps us survive in new situations. Unfortunately, it is also the root cause of prejudice.

Organized and Creative

The Rock In My ShoeMichelle my wife is organized and neat.  I claim that my difference from that is creativity.  Almost every expert on management or business operation says you need to operate from a clean desk.  Never did that, never been there, at least outside the military world.