Blog about Leadership

One of the best principles that all leaders follow is that you can learn from anybody. When I was in the military, I worked for a Chief Warrant Officer, who told me that you learn from all types of authority – you either learn what to do or what not to do. You can learn [...]

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has drafted and proposed a tax on the financial sector to fund future bailouts in the event of a future financial crisis. The proposal is titled, “A Fair and Substantial Contribution by the Financial Sector.” This makes sense. The IMF originated in the Bretton Woods agreements, which were drafted in [...]

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I was reading Thomas Friedman’s latest Op-Ed in the New York Times (here); he is one of the few columnists that I follow regularly and I greatly enjoyed his book, The World Is Flat. He wrote about the biggest leverage that America can use in regards to Iran is the transition from an oil consumption [...]

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