It's the end of a game and people are going home. It's pouring. Like, biblically pouring. That happens in the South: sometimes the s...

When you use the word “customer,” do you mean an internal customer — someone who works for the same company that you do and who uses the tec...

Peter Kaufman, editor of Poor Charlie's Almanak , wanted to understand "how everything in the world works." Normally, such a l...

A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. You can use this material to blame just as well as you can use anything else. Merely knowing  t...

We talk of independence. No man is independent. We are all interdependent; and we shall only rise as we carry others with us, and as we are ...

  He who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms in this life and...

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions - he had money as well.  Margaret Thatcher Television intervie...

Some suppose that humility is about beating ourselves up. Humility does not mean convincing ourselves that we are worthless, meaningless, or...

Many people, as they go through life, focus mainly on success. To them, success is represented by wealth, recognition, and power and stat...

While the young Springsteen honed his craft every night in bars on the Jersey Shore, he enjoyed his growing popularity but felt that some...

I've known and admired men and women in the Senate who played much more than a small role in our history, true statesmen, giants of A...

One of my favorite books is The Power of Ethical Management, written by Ken Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale. In their book, Blanchard an...

Today the word "hero" has been diminished, confused with "celebrity." But in my father's generation the word meant ...

Self-serving leaders give themselves away in two ways. The first is how they receive feedback. Have you ever tried to give feedback to so...

Too many leaders today focus only on success. They think success depends only on how much wealth they have accumulated, the amount of rec...

The traditional hierarchy is good for the visionary aspect of leadership. People look to the leader for vision and direction, and althoug...

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth ...

So how can you do this? It requires a few qualities. You’re willing to get experience doing the work of your team. This doesn’t mean g...

Servant leaders also often do things that seem less than leaderish. Wolfskehl, for example, would clear the snow from employees' cars...

Servant-leaders exercise the following traits and practices in their roles. They: Understand the value of every human soul. Have an in...