From a very interesting short interview with a Dominican monk. The most attractive thing on the planet is a person filled with gladness. The modern world doesn’t know how to take this; it’s so completely rare. When they meet someone who is filled with gladness, their first reaction is suspicion. [...]

How You Can Build Your Leadership Presence The speech didn’t start off well. We were in a Midwestern city at a trade group conference of equipment dealers, where I was working with an executive of a leading manufacturer who had just taken charge of his company’s dealer channel. Here he [...]

It was 10:30 in the morning when I walked out of my room in the convention hotel and headed down the extraordinarily long hallway. It was unusual for me to sleep so late but I was feeling great from the extra rest and, as I said to a friend I [...]