I often close presentations with the following observation. I am grateful to Pastor Dan Carlson of Public Safety Ministries for encouraging me to put it in writing. I believe that the first leadership development seminar on earth was an ancient campfire. Consider the scene: the tribe, clan, village – the community – gathered together after […]
Yesterday morning, a good friend took me flying in a single-engine Piper. It was great fun, and, in a very distinctive way, quite thought-provoking. I am not a pilot. Understandably then, I considered myself a passenger. The pilot corrected me: I was crew. I needed to understand what was going on in the cockpit, and […]
My father, Maher J. Weinstein, died of cancer almost 17 years ago. I think of him every day. Maher was a lawyer by profession, but a teacher by disposition. He was also a remarkable human being, who enjoyed the hell out of his own life, while he enriched the lives of those around him. I […]
The headline from last Monday’s HBR Daily Stat offered a grim assessment: “Male Professionals with Higher Ethical Standards Earn Less.” According to research by Andrew Hussey of the University of Memphis, “Male business professionals who self-report high ethical character earn, on average, 3.4% less than their peers who don’t report having such standards.” Women suffer […]
I have spent much of the past few weeks training fireservice leaders through programs presented by SBM Fire Department and by Gasaway ConsultingGroup. These have been 3-hour sessions addressing multiple audiences. The concentrated repetition of topics, together with the diverse audiences (many departments, all levels of experience) have stimulated some new ideas, and challenged me […]
Treasured readers, I spent last Friday presenting an ethics seminar to a room full of fire inspectors at the Institute for Building Officials at the University of Minnesota. We had a lively discussion (banishing my greatest fear: eight hours of silent staring), which included some interesting themes about ongoing improvement and the need to stay […]
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