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2019-05-08 11:00
May 9th is the anniversary of the birthday of Sophie Scholl. Scholl is a celebrated heroine of modern Germany–indeed the world–for her historic service and sacrifice in resisting… Read More
2019-05-02 11:00
It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy. —Steve Jobs This quotation is iconic, representing Steve Jobs and Apple: vigorous, irrepressible, courageous, brash. It distil… Read More
2019-04-30 20:28
Longtime Washington establishment lawyer Gregory Craig has been indicted for making false statements to federal investigators and for failure to comply with the Foreign Agents Registration A… Read More
2018-03-12 11:00
The following Samuel Johnson quotation, from The Lives of the Poets, is the epigraph to Colonel Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris: It has been observed in all ages, that the advantages o… Read More
2018-03-07 16:44
This piece is written by Professors Joerg Reckenrich and Jamie Anderson of the Antwerp Management School. More information and links to the authors can be found below. ## In today’s co… Read More
2018-03-01 11:00
How often have we heard the mantra: Our people are our greatest asset. Now, in the new world of 21st century leadership, it’s actually true. An assumption of the Industrial Age was tha… Read More
2018-02-13 11:00
Lincoln | Kindness & Optimism
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2018-02-12 11:00
Lincoln Public Sentiment
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2018-01-29 11:00
This article is written by Professor Jamie Anderson, Antwerp Management School, and Dr Babita Mathur-Helm, University of Stellenbosch Business School. *** Given the recent ch… Read More
2018-01-10 11:00
Congratulations if you’ve made it through your goals for the first few days of the New Year. That is no small thing, taking first steps. Nonetheless, it may be timely to ask: are… Read More
2018-01-06 14:37
Moviegoers fifty years ago were captivated and challenged by a provocative, topical film: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? The storyline was tailor-made for the moment. Spencer Tracy and… Read More
2018-01-05 22:24
Shortly after the Second World War, a Republican legislator sought to temper criticism of a Democratic president. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Arthur Vandenberg declared that… Read More
2018-01-04 11:00
Thanks to my friend, the distinguished lawyer Anoop Bose, for sharing this quotation. G K Chesterton | New Year Resolutions Matter
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2017-12-31 11:00
A highly intelligent female friend of mine recently broke up with her longtime companion. In an extensive conversation, she recounted what worked and what didn’t over the course of the… Read More
2017-11-29 11:00
Adam Gopnik presents a well-crafted analysis of Churchill Leadership in War, in the New Yorker. Churchill War Leadership | An American Appreciation
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2017-11-15 11:00
Khalil Gibran | Service is Joy
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2017-11-07 11:00
The highest level of leadership is service. The highest level of service is leadership. At the highest level, service and leadership become one. Serve to lead. When Leadership and Service Ar… Read More
2017-11-03 23:07
The electoral earthquake that resulted in the election of President Trump is not limited to the United States. And it’s far from running its course. The Brexit referendum of June 2016… Read More
2017-10-30 11:00
Who lost FedEx? How has a once-great enterprise declined to the point where its “customer service” can only be referred to within quotation marks? If service is the canary-in-the… Read More
2017-10-25 11:00
Theodore Roosevelt | Prepare for Heroism
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2017-10-16 21:56
These are the best of times—and the worst of times—for Independents striving to disrupt and transform our broken politics. The Best of Times Though it can be obscured in the dust… Read More
2017-10-02 11:00
Every day we experience changes in how people live and work, how they lead and manage and communicate. It’s not self-regarding for current generations to recognize that some of the res… Read More
2017-09-25 11:00
Note: Michael Epperson died on September 30, 2013. His presence is greatly missed. His example of service is timeless and can be of use to many people—including those who did not have… Read More
2017-09-06 11:00
Benjamin Disraeli | Successful Man Has Most Information
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2017-08-15 11:00
Serve to Lead is built upon the following principles of 21st century leadership: 1. Everyone Can Lead, Because Everyone Can Serve. 2. The Most Valuable Resource of Any Enterprise is its… Read More
2017-08-07 11:00
Theodore Levitt | What Business Are You Really In?
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2017-08-01 11:00
The 20th century was the era of the Chief Executive Officer, or CEO. Should the 21st century be the era of the Chief Service Officer, or CSO? At the moment the triumph of the CEO terminology… Read More
2017-07-25 11:00
The challenge for busy people is how to juggle all the tasks in a day to insure that the most important ones get needed attention and get done. This is the essence of effective time manageme… Read More
2017-07-18 11:00
Thank you for visiting the Serve to Lead Journal. This website is a living resource dedicated to your reaching your highest level of performance, and contributing your greatest value, i… Read More
2017-07-17 20:58
In recent months there has been a lot of public discussion about the relationship of French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte. By all accounts, their ten-year marriage has been… Read More
2017-06-20 19:39
Clare Boothe Luce famously declared that even the most consequential leaders merit a single sentence in memory. Amid a political career of notable longevity, Helmut Kohl will surely be recal… Read More
2017-06-02 11:00
Mike Myatt posted excellent thoughts on leadership a while back, riffing off the beloved standard, A Little Help From My Friends. Mike’s ideas got me reflecting a bit on the… Read More
2017-05-23 23:51
Through Memorial Day, May 29, Disrupt Politics: Reset Washington is on sale in Kindle for only $2.99. Please share the word with everyone who is committed to disrupting–and transf… Read More
2017-05-18 11:00
Once again, Watergate analogies are in the air. Though they may be overdrawn, there are important lessons that remain evergreen from a historic, catastrophic leadership breakdown at highest… Read More
2017-05-17 11:00
Serve to Lead identifies an emerging trend of 21st century leadership: private lives becoming interwoven with public lives. That trend is becoming ever more conspicuous. It’s at the co… Read More
2017-05-12 11:00
Serve to Lead outlines the Information Age trends that are disrupting leadership, management, and communication in all fields. The passage of time is making these changes ever more evid… Read More
2017-04-21 11:00
The cliché is that every day should be Earth Day. We’ve all become more attuned to the ways in which all of our actions–individually and collectively–can create envi… Read More
2017-04-10 11:00
People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person. A Reason, a Season, or a L… Read More
2017-03-14 11:00
What about you? Are you persevering to make change? Are you prepared for the prospect of much more rapid change, in the new world of 21st century leadership, than Gandhi may have dared imagi… Read More
2017-03-07 11:00
Corporate organizations are expected to have boards of directors. At least in theory, the boards are intended to provide strategic direction, to isolate trends and spot opportunities that mi… Read More
2017-02-27 11:00
William Shakespeare | Virtue is Bold
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2017-02-15 11:00
William Blake | Lion and Fox
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2017-02-12 11:00
Historian Geoffrey Perret has written fine biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur and John F. Kennedy. Perret’s speech to the Lincoln Forum in 2002 is an o… Read More
2017-02-08 11:00
The Ronald W. Reagan Society at Eureka College strives to advance the leadership legacy of America’s 40th president. I’m honored to have recently spoken at the Society’s an… Read More
2017-01-30 11:00
Leadership matters. Adolf Hitler’s accession to the chancellorship of Germany on 30 January 1933 is a stark, tragic reminder why. He assumed office following partisan parliamenta… Read More
2017-01-17 11:00
This week is the anniversary of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address. The production qualities are touchingly basic in our time, when anyone can create a film–which… Read More
2016-12-27 00:56
Have you made New Year’s resolutions? Are you sticking to them? If you’re like many of us, one your resolutions may be to improve your health through regular working out. My prim… Read More
2016-12-27 00:56
Have you made New Year’s resolutions? Are you sticking to them? If you’re like many of us, one your resolutions may be to improve your health through regular working out. My prim… Read More
2016-12-19 11:00
Life is a theater… the world’s a stage…so invite your audiences carefully. Not everyone is holy enough and healthy enough to have a seat in your front row. Everyone Can&r&hell…Read More
2016-11-29 11:00
One layer [of Churchill’s character and personality] was certainly seventeenth century. The eighteenth century in him is obvious. There was the nineteenth century, and a large slice, o… Read More
2016-11-28 11:00
November 30 is the anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill’s birth. Sir Isaiah Berlin’s remarkable article from 1949, in the Atlantic–-declaring Churchill’s to be &lsquo&hell…Read More
2016-11-23 11:00
Amid the tremendous challenges facing the United States at the moment, it’s useful to recall the origination of the now-familiar holiday. Abraham Lincoln established it in the dark hou… Read More
2016-11-11 11:00
This brief silent film montage evokes a moment at the hinge of history… We know so much they could not know…. They knew so much we cannot know…. ARMISTICE DAY, 1918 by R… Read More
2016-11-10 11:00
The Great War of 1914-18—it became the First World War only in tragic retrospect—was the seminal event of the 20th century. Its after-effects reverberate in our day. One might ar… Read More
2016-11-08 17:41
For what seems an eternity, Americans have been focused on November 8. Now we need to turn our attention to November 9. Close to half the nation will face the reality of a president-elect wh… Read More
2016-10-27 11:00
Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest leaders in American history. Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership distills his leadership lessons, so they can be transferred seamlessly into the… Read More
2016-10-26 11:00
For more information on Roosevelt’s approach, please see Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership. Theodore Roosevelt | Genius for Leadership
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2016-10-24 16:03
There is one question that could redefine the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign. An affirmative answer by Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump could disrupt American politics: As pres… Read More
2016-10-18 11:00
John F Kennedy | Speak to Change the World
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2016-10-13 11:00
Monday, October 14, 1912. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Autumn crispness was slipping in. Another demanding day dissolved into dusk, amid one of the most raucous, hard-fought, and consequential pres… Read More
2016-10-05 12:00
Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men’s virtues or vices may be best discovered: but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall dis… Read More
2016-09-29 11:00
George Bernard Shaw | All Progress Depends on Unreasonable Man
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2016-09-18 11:00
Samuel Johnson | Work Is Self Portrait
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2016-09-16 11:00
Sept. 17, 1787, is the date on which the United States Constitution was read and engrossed in final form at the constitutional convention. Benjamin Franklin, then 81 years old, was too frail… Read More
2016-09-07 11:00
What are you selling… now? Are you updating your sales content and media? Are you adding more value in what you are selling? Are you adapting to new circumstances, creating new opport… Read More
2016-08-31 11:00
Arthur Godfrey is largely forgotten now–other than as a question for quiz shows and games. Yet his influence is all around us. Every morning when you listen to the radio in &ldquo&hell…Read More
2016-08-23 19:22
Among many good-government types, there’s a reliable refrain: We need more moderates in Washington! Such sentiments are doubtless well intended. It’s easy to see where they come… Read More
2016-08-15 11:00
Ronald Reagan Quotation: In the end, it all comes down to leadership. adapted from Reagan on Leadership. Ronald Reagan | All About Leadership
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2016-08-09 11:00
Boris Pasternak | Beauty and Audacity
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2016-07-26 20:26
In the aftermath of the Brexit, there’s a rising sense of imminent political change in the United States. The spectacular, disruptive insurgencies of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump ha… Read More
2016-07-20 11:00
There was a time when they were simply a beautiful young couple in love. Nina and Claus von Stauffenberg were favored by fortune. They were aristocrats. They were patriots, dedicated to the… Read More
2016-06-30 11:00
Through July 4, DisruptPolitics.US will be available on Kindle for only $2.99. Please share the word with everyone who is committed to disrupting our broken political system. With best wishe… Read More
2016-06-28 11:00
Would you have signed the Declaration of Independence? Before you look up from your relaxing holiday rituals in appalled disbelief that anyone would manifest such egregious effrontery a… Read More
2016-06-23 11:00
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | Simplicity Beyond Complexity
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2016-06-13 11:00
Edward Emerson wrote the foreword to his late father’s collected writings. It begins: Like all great thinkers, Ralph Waldo Emerson was ahead of his time. We, rather than the peopl… Read More
2016-05-30 11:00
Do not stand at my grave and weep; I am not there. I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow; I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain; I am the gentle autum… Read More
2016-05-29 11:00
Why does the memory of John F. Kennedy exert such an enduring hold on the imaginations of so many Americans? There are, to be sure, numerous factors that conjoin memorably in our thinking of… Read More
2016-05-27 15:43
To honor those who served, DisruptPolitics.US will be available for free Kindle download through Memorial Day. Please share the word with everyone who is committed to disrupting our broken p… Read More
2016-05-25 11:00
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Serve and be Served
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2016-05-23 11:00
Pete Seeger | Communicate Amid Disagreement
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2016-05-19 11:00
If selfishness is at the bottom of all error, sin, and crime, and ignorance is the basis of all selfishness, then when we see a manifestation of either of these qualities, if we are true to… Read More
2016-05-18 11:00
Noted leadership expert Mike Myatt declares that there no such thing as a self-made man. As much as one is reluctant to find any disagreement with Mr. Myatt, one wonders: Is this a… Read More
2016-05-10 11:00
On Friday, May 10, 1940, at 5:35 a.m., the beautiful spring dawn of northwestern Europe was sundered by the unanticipated, unmistakable, ominous, thunderous rumble of heavy artillery fire. A… Read More
2016-05-04 23:28
Hinge moments of history don’t come out of nowhere. They’re presaged, sometimes long in advance. Many sense that change is underway. Some see around corners. A few recognize that… Read More
2016-04-23 11:00
For more information on Roosevelt’s approach, please see Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership. Theodore Roosevelt | In the Arena
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2016-04-12 21:26
At hinge points in a leader’s journey, there is often a recurring question: Will one serve as a prophet…or a politician? This is manifestly evident in some situations. For examp… Read More
2016-04-07 14:00
Serve to Lead argues that 21st Century Leadership, Management and Communication are quite distinct from the 20th Century model. The graphic below catalogs the changes that are ongoing… Read More
2016-03-29 08:00
Napoleon Bonaparte | Two O’Clock in the Morning Courage
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2016-03-22 13:58
2016 may emerge as the most important election in many years. Nonetheless, for the first time since I became eligible to vote, I won’t be casting a ballot. Like millions of other Ameri… Read More
2016-03-14 16:20
Serve to Lead outlines the Information Age trends that are disrupting leadership, management, and communication in all fields. The passage of time is making these changes ever more evid… Read More
2016-03-11 23:00
Thank you for visiting the Serve to Lead Pensees. This website is a living resource dedicated to your reaching your highest level of performance, and contributing your greatest value, i… Read More
2016-03-10 11:00
Serve to Lead is a practical manual–a Baedeker guide–for navigating the new world of 21st century leadership. There’s much that’s new and different about leaders… Read More
2016-03-03 11:00
Robert Louis Stevenson | Everyone Sells Something
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2016-02-24 11:00
What do you fear? What can you do today? Eleanor Roosevelt | Do One Thing You Fear
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2016-02-15 11:00
It used to be the Washington’s Birthday holiday (and still is in at least a few places). Now, Presidents’ Day is the official, national standard. Some traditionalists no dou… Read More
2016-02-10 11:00
Serve to Lead is about the new world of 21st century leadership. There are a number of blogs that I admire and learn from as I strive to advance my service. My take on the best is presented… Read More
2016-02-04 11:00
As with other consequential presidents before him, Ronald Reagan is emerging as a historical figure transcending the partisan politics of his time. Reagan on Leadership explores his lea… Read More
2016-01-26 11:00
It’s become predictable: every year or so there is a flurry of commentary about the decline or end of blogging. One occasion was the announcement by the redoubtable blogging pioneer, A… Read More
2016-01-19 11:00
Who Are You Serving? Martin Luther King Jr | The Urgent Question of Service
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