It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed... The Habits of a vigorous mind a...

If you can keep your head when all about you        Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt...

  I think the first 3:25 seconds of this interview is powerful. Here's an excerpt from the transcript: Reporter : Following the huge win...

Rapidly increasing rates of change and growing complexity has made navigating ambiguity essential in leadership. We've begun to see d...

Over the past decade, the pace of change and the growing complexity of the business environment has increased dramatically. Leaders often ...

Research suggests that most conversational speech consists of short (0.20 seconds), medium (0.60 seconds), and long (over 1 second) pause...

[Commander Rorke T.] Denver  told the story of his final training exercise as a Navy SEAL, where students in training have to plan, organ...

[R]esearchers have... found that bosses feel less stress than their employees do. Bosses’ perceptions of stress are offset by factors suc...

Because the emotion of anger comes on so suddenly, often we are caught up in a verbal or physical response to the anger before ever consc...

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ...

Leaders need to be comfortable with the reality that in the face of change, the future is often hazy. Then they need others to be equally...

With the situation as grim as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than [George] Washington , making his...

A theme [Dominic] Barton identified from talking with CEOs is the importance of mentally compartmentalizing. “You get so many issues comi...

If the test of social skill is the ability to calm distressing emotions in others, then handling someone at the peak of rage is perhaps t...