Category Archives: Activism & Leadership

If I could pick just one leader, it would be Ted Turner.

And I explained why in a letter to his daughter on Tuesday. As an executive recruiter since 1999, I have been operating in what I like to call The Leadership Business. The first step of any assignment is studying and understanding the executive … Continue reading

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What does “doing what’s right” mean to Apple’s Tim Cook?

A world-changing appeal from one Auburn industrial engineer to another Tim Cook and I both graduated from Auburn University as industrial engineers—I in 1968 and he fourteen years later. We both earned MBAs and we both went on to careers in the … Continue reading

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Leaders. Billionaires. The future of our civilization.

Once enlightened about food, just a few of them can change the world. A few months ago, I began writing comments on Bill Gates own blog platform, GatesNotes.com. Here is the one that I posted under his article about his friend … Continue reading

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