Is anyone else noticing that both in Canada and in the USA the speaker of the house was suddenly gone… in Canada, a resignation, in the USA a removal by vote…but both need a new speaker? In the USA it’s a civil war within the Republican party (a party seemingly intent on self-destruction) which caused…
Category: leadership
Women in leadership
As I am listening to Barack Obama’s A Promised Land, now 31 hours into it out of 40 hours, he spends some time talking about the personal cost of serving as a staffer in the White House. He spells out the family separation, the long hours, the constant weight of the work, the consistent criticism…
Where does mistrust end?
I will in time, have a more detailed written commentary on the two books I am reading/listening to. The first one is a biography of Gorbachev. The great Russian statesman who took the USSR through its inevitable disintegration. He proved to be a man not of the cloth of his land, but someone who could…
