The retreat into tribalism that is today's politics poses an existential threat to this country and the world. There's no way to sugar...

If you're not standing in your purpose, you're standing in someone else's. Hugh O'Doherty

Serving in public office is assuming enormous responsibility. The well-being of your community and, in these challenging times, the...

Leadership entails moving yourself and your people from an aversion to an appreciation of uncertainty, conflict, not knowing, and...

There is no person, couple, family, or group that doesn’t experience conflict. What’s your reaction to conflict? For most of us, it’s...

January 14, 2022 Under the headline “Dueling Crises in the U.K.,” today’s New York Times relates two stories about the misadventures of...

Twice over the past few years, I’ve had the privilege of co-leading (with Ed O’Malley first, Jill Hufnagel most recently) 1775 to Today:...

Mobilizing people to confront tough, intractable problems, overcome differences, and move beyond the natural resistance to change...

A vibrant democracy demands an informed and engaged citizenry. How can we expect to have good citizens, much less good leaders, if we...

Marty Linsky wisely offered that "leadership entails dispensing loss to your people at a rate they can absorb." Leadership entails change...

Coauthored by Jay Kaufman and Laurence Prusak Wisdom. It’s easier to notice when it’s absent than to define. And sadly, if not absent,...

Leadership in our public life can and should be a noble undertaking. The question for those of us aspiring to positions of leadership in...

In 2001, I had the privilege of traveling in China as a Roosevelt Fellow. The fellowship, a visionary project of the now-sadly-shuttered...

My journey in public life was animated by a mix of youthful idealism about this country inherited from my immigrant parents and a...

New York Times, Saturday February 27, 2021. Leading headline: De Facto Saudi Leader Approved Assassination of Khashoggi, U.S. Says. Sub...

Benjamin Franklin when asked whether our newly-minted Constitution produced a republic or a monarchy famously replied “A republic, if you...

Scot Lehigh’s column in today’s Boston Globe, “In GOP’s incipient civil war, who is standing up and who is toadying up,” we’re invited to...

Corporate campaign contributions have been blessed by the Supreme Court as free speech and justified as a legitimate expression of...

We each have been invited to affirm an oath, modeled on the Presidential oath of office heard yesterday as it is every four years, to...

Since launching Beacon Leadership Collaborative, I have (tongue deeply in cheek) thanked Donald J. Trump for helping me take the measure...

Even as a global pandemic is taking hundreds of thousands of lives and bringing life as we know it to a near halt, we have been shaken to...

Two centuries ago, while serving in the Massachusetts legislature, Horace Mann invented universal mandatory public education to answer...

I watched The Lincoln Project’s "Mourning in America" video this morning and it left me deeply sad, with a healthy dose of determination....

There's so much coming at us about Covid-19 and it is hard to know what is legit and what's not. Here's what I do know. We all have to...