Jack H. (Nick) McCall Retired Senior Attorney and Deputy Agency Ethics Official, Tennessee Valley Authority If anything instills fear in the heart of a leader or manager,… Read more “Finding Courage in Failure: A Leader’s Ultimate Challenge”

As we reflect on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, it is apparent that watershed moments offer many lessons.  This post offers a perspective informed in part by leading in the formidable wake of the Dobbs decision.

If I asked you to think about neutrality, you may think of Switzerland, for which the choice of neutrality has been a remarkable foreign policy decision for years.

Leaders employ certain routinized practices that inspire others. These leadership habits are all around us. We find them in venerable publications. Steven Covey is well known for his groundbreaking book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People—a book I consumed and discussed with colleagues about 25 years ago, before I started teaching law full time.

I am a 3L, quickly approaching graduation. I have a summer of bar prep and a new job awaiting me in the fall. I have been in school since I was 5 – going straight from high school to college to law school. But law school is different.

Rich Strike serves as a testament to how a slow start out of the gate does not matter much when the true question in life is how well you understand yourself, the task at hand, and what it takes to ultimately succeed in the end