Once again this season, our sloop LOON is serving up life and leadership lessons, and in unexpected ways.  The first this year began when a charterer reported a small fresh water leak at the base of LOON’s toilet – by itself not serious as long as the head’s seacocks were closed, one

Is anyone getting tired hearing about “innovation?” A recent WSJ article (“You Call That Innovation?” – May 23, WSJ Marketplace) suggested that might be the case.  Among other signs, it referenced how a search of Securities and Exchange filings yielded 33,528 mentions of “innovation”

We’ve heard a lot lately about how integrity lapses are costly, but less about how integrity drives organizational effectiveness and competitiveness.  Part of the reason may be that we associate integrity mainly with only one of Webster’s definitions (the 3rd, actually) – “sound moral

What would be true if we could summon ten percent, twenty percent or more courage? What unpleasant or even disastrous circumstances might be avoided? What might we achieve that otherwise we can only imagine? Just in the context of recent headlines what might be different? Courage is a