This video I’m including here is called The Millennial Question, but, in fact, some of the deeper issues raised here may have infiltrated all of lives because of our ubiquitous access to technology. (more…)
Archive for the ‘Quintessential Leadership’ Category
John McCain: A Striving-to-Be Quintessential Leader
Posted: September 3, 2018 in Quintessential LeadershipTags: higher standard, honesty, integrity, John McCain, quintessential leader, service, trustworthy
John McCain, United States Senator from Arizona, died on August 25, 2018, a little more than a year after being diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive, and always fatal, type of brain cancer.
Senator McCain’s life could have been much different then it turned out to be. He grew up in a very elite and privileged world, and one that afforded him the opportunity, if he chose, to live for himself. Senator McCain didn’t do that.
The First Quintessential Leader in My Life: My Dad
Posted: June 17, 2018 in Quintessential Leader Basics, Quintessential LeadershipTags: consistency, daddy, Father's Day 2018, gentleness, humility, integrity, Leadership, love, patience, service, trust
If my dad were still alive, he’d turn 90 next month. That sounds really old to me, but I am reminded that he and my mom came to parenthood later in life, after he’d almost finished his veterinary degree and after several years of heartbreaking miscarriages, the last of which almost killed my mom.
After Dad and Mom realized they wouldn’t be able to have biological children, they still wanted a family, so they decided to adopt children and love them as their own. (more…)
Are You a Quintessential Leader As a Parent?
Posted: April 5, 2018 in Quintessential Leader Basics, Quintessential LeadershipTags: chaos, child neglect, Leadership, parenting
The first relationship that children will – or should – experience leadership (both as a role and as a role model) is with their parents.
In our society, many parents have abdicated this leadership role – in spite of having experienced it, albeit imperfectly at times, themselves as children – in favor of being friends with their children.
This is unquintessential leadership at a core level (it is also parental neglect) and it, just as quintessential leadership aims to grow quintessential leaders as its legacy, produces a new generation of unquintessential leadership that is even worse than the one before it.
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The 19th Anniversary of My Daddy’s Death -10-15-17 – A Quintessential Leader Remembered and Missed
Posted: October 16, 2017 in Examples and Analyses of Quintessential Leadership, Quintessential LeadershipTags: accountability, consistency, daddy, fairness, Father's Day 2017, honesty, integrity, quintessential leader, righting wrongs, setting a higher standard, setting boundaries, sincerity, trustworthiness
My dad was the first quintessential leader I encountered in life. He wasn’t perfect – none of us are – but who he was and how he lived his life was anchored to the principles of quintessential leadership.
In the years since Daddy’s death in 1998, I’ve met and or reconnected with many people who knew my dad well and one of the things I’ve consistently heard about him was that he was a good man, a kind man, and a gentle man with an open heart ready to serve and open ears and time ready to listen. (more…)
Father’s Day 2017 – The Quintessential Leader
Posted: June 18, 2017 in Examples and Analyses of Quintessential Leadership, Quintessential LeadershipTags: accountability, consistency, daddy, fairness, Father's Day 2017, honesty, integrity, quintessential leader, righting wrongs, setting a higher standard, setting boundaries, sincerity, trustworthiness
My dad was the first quintessential leader I encountered in life. He wasn’t perfect – none of us are – but who he was and how he lived his life was anchored to the principles of quintessential leadership.
In the years since Daddy’s death in 1998, I’ve met and or reconnected with many people who knew my dad well and one of the things I’ve consistently heard about him was that he was a good man, a kind man, and a gentle man with an open heart ready to serve and open ears and time ready to listen. (more…)
