This 2025 retrospective shows that competence without character is fragile and often harmful. Character endures, sustains, ...

In the four decades I have worked in strategic leadership, I don’t recall seeing such an intensely divisive time, with blogs and posts casting leaders as either villains or heroes, renewing questions ...

Some describe leadership as having three foundational elements: competence, commitment to the leadership role and character. Character is the least-researched and least-represented element in ...

For those in highly visible leadership positions, a leadership philosophy is a powerful tool. It’s your perspective on what you believe makes a leader of character. Far more than a list of desirable ...

The late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. encouraged his followers not to judge people by their appearance, but by the content of their character. A person's character, good or bad, can ...

Do business leaders have strong enough character? That’s a critical and often overlooked question as organizations face continuing challenges to compete and excel. Having the right competencies is ...

A big paycheck and a corner office do not necessarily translate into effective leadership. The character of good leaders typically shows in the ways they interact with employees and how effectively ...

What causes companies and organizations to fail? In a word, leadership. One of the worst fire officers I ever worked for was a captain who would routinely say, “It ain’t personal.” He would say this ...

Crewmembers aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy conduct a walk-through of a flooding damage control drill while transiting the Arctic Ocean on Sept. 22, 2016. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd ...