When you do not know where you are, even the most detailed maps will not be useful to you. Knowing where you stand is necessary and sobering. Crafting any strategy starts with knowing where you are, and then plotting where you realistically want to go and the steps you will take to get there. The late leadership writer, Max De…
Abigail Adams in 1790 wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson with this golden line: “These are the hard times in which a genius would wish to live. Great necessities call forth great leaders.” These words ring through all time. Good and hard times will always come and go. Hard times are opportunities for people of thought and action, who dare…