A Bob's Life

  I have written and skirted the issue of leadership during the pandemic. As most of you know I do not believe, based upon the evidence, tha...

I received an email the other day. It stated that because rumors of change had made it to leadership and to ensure transparency this email i...

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, right, stands at a fence guarding a federal courthouse  as tear gas drifts by  early July 23, in Portland, Or...

Some of the most frightening words that I have heard uttered from The White House have made the news again. The phrase, "What do ...

Interesting things have transpired in the news media over the past week. One theme which caught my attention was the differing response t...

Me, With My New Mask At Wegman's, Columbia, MD April 4, 2020 Making our first trip into the "wild" yesterday, Chris and I...

I learned a new combination of words yesterday that have a complicated and far more difficult connotation than I realized. "At l...

Snow on the pines along Route 15 in PA October 18, 2015 1. Snow! For real! I experienced snow in Central NY and Pennsylvania yesterd...

It has been a while since I wrote about some leadership principles that I discover while plodding through the daily grind. I have recently r...

One of the most important traits of effective leaders is the ability to make decisions. Good leaders are inherently effective decision maker...

Over the past 70 or so years, the military has been used as a social engineering prototype for society. Look at the success of the integra...

I have been considering the impact of email versus the personal interaction in a technology enabled world leadership environment. I still ...

Sports, it seems, can be a reflection of the warrior spirit that hides inside of us. Like anything, each person is gifted with different por...

The storms last night left a path of destruction in the wake. I spent the better part of the day cleaning up and getting things back togeth...

I make decisions every day. It is part of living. Some are pretty mundane like what color shirt will I wear. Others are a bit more important...

Encouragement seems to be a recurring theme in my life. In an effort to remain a positive person full of optimism and continuing to grow, I ...

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it. Omar N. Bradley I get a lot out of this quote from General O...

I heard the following words the other day as I was receiving feedback on my recent nomination package. "You are too narrow. Our paradig...

I work with some people who just cannot get used to informality. They insist on knocking on my open office door before entering or even then...

I read a fascinating article in the New York Times the other day titled, Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age . It brought back...