Leader character satisfies the criteria for competitive advantage - rare. valuable, difficult to imitate, organizationally embedded - whereas AI does not.

U.S. Coast Guard Academy Swab Jamaal Green accepts the Class of 2016 flag from Mystic Seaport president Steve White at Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Conn., July 21, 2012. (U.S. Coast Guard photograph by ...

Exceptional organizations know that people are their most valued resource; they motivate employees and recognize excellence. The U.S. Coast Guard, in which I served for 36 years, is an organization ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. In 2024, I authored an NBJ article on what the “New ...

As we come into another election cycle, candidates will soon be spewing opinions about issues, attacking each other without mercy, and making extravagant promises to the electorate. However, I observe ...

The best lesson I learned during my formative years in journalism came from the editor at my first daily newspaper job, Doug ...

An all-too-common pitfall many leaders experience as they accumulate influence is forgetting a key marker that makes them successful over the long term — the depth of their character. Virtuous leaders ...

There is a general understanding by most people that in order to be trustworthy one must have both character and competence. Frankly, I couldn’t agree more. For example, would you want a surgeon who ...

When a leading research team began tracking results of privately held industry companies, a great deal of data was collected, analyzed, and compared. They began to look for patterns of performance ...