I recently attended a talk for human resource leaders that brought in Hitendra Wadhwa, a very popular professor at Columbia Business School and founder of the Institute for Personal Leadership (IPL). Wadhwa is a mathematician who has made a study of what makes a great leader. It didn’t surprise me that this scholar found that great leadership comes from […]

Reading books is good for you. Even Oprah says so. (Writing books is, too, even if while you’re doing it you’re not sure if you’ll ever finish. Ahem.) Late last summer I finished writing my first book. Among other benefits, that experience gave me even more respect for book authors than I had before. Writing […]