Growing up in Athens, I was brought up on the classics and the Greek myths. They were taught to me not as ancient history, as my children le...

There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.  Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington:...

Oh, do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks! Th...

Resilience is the virtue that enables people to move through hardship and become better. No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from ...

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. Isabella to Angelo in Measure for Measure by ...

It is sometimes supposed that men must organize in order to affect their plans. It is sometimes said or organizations that the developmen...

Self-doubt and fear can lead you to want to blend in with those around you. But, trying to fit in with the crowd will cause you to disgui...

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be...

Revealing vulnerability is counterintuitive for a CEO. In such an exposed role, it can feel as though demonstrating anything other than str...

Skills and experience might land you a leadership position with a large business organization, but they don’t make you a true leader. ...

Bushido refers not only to martial rectitude, but to personal rectitude: Rectitude or Justice, is the strongest virtue of Bushido. A well-k...

[O]ne of the most reliable indicators and predictors of true leadership is an individual’s ability to find meaning in negative events and t...

According to experts , the following 11 activities help cultivate resilience: Having a core set of beliefs that nothing can shake. Fin...

It was the great north wind that made the Vikings.  Scandanavian Proverb As quoted in Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls, Simo...

At the end of a recent podcast interview, the host asked me, “What’s the best advice you ever got?” Before I tell you what I said allow m...