A terrible thing happened in my neighborhood. Someone took all the books out of several Little Libraries, the ornate wooden boxes that people put in front of their houses to facilitate reading. As I was in a somber mood already…
‘Terrorism’ isn’t going away, so how are we going to respond?
Every day in America, indeed around the globe, we collectively substantiate the thoughts of the great 19th-century Swiss military thinker Antoine-Henri Jomini. Indeed, if he and Osama bin Laden and Muhammed Atta were somehow looking across the great divide to…
Lessons of value of public investment have been forgotten
Fundamental trade-offs often are the same regardless of the scale of the organization in question. That thought hit me as I read an article about a county board meeting in a weekly newspaper back home while getting new tires on…
Modern CEOs should be glad they are not generals
John Stumpf, chairman and CEO of Wells Fargo, should be glad the legal principles the U.S. Supreme Court imposed on now largely exonerated Japanese World War II Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita are not applied to banking violations. If they were, Stumpf’s…