When the “solution” to a difference is to “agree to disagree,” a principle and a relationship have been compromised. When an issue is at hand and we are debating it, there is also some principle at hand. If the debate moves to emotional “blood letting,” one or both of us is “out there” flapping with emotion and probably not much substance. (more…)

Leadership or corporate business competence is not about age attained or expertise; it is about the vulnerability factor. True leaders, people our kids can look up to and we can learn from are consistent in their personal lives to what they are in their business lives. They are not hiding the ugliness of control freaks who have personal relationships that you and I would readily see as unseemly, to say the least. (more…)