"Good selfishness is where I benefit but you benefit more. Raising your children, and working your passion, are good examples of good selfishness. Bad selfishness on the other hand is where I benefit but everyone else pays a price for it. Drug dealing and predatory subprime lending are good examples...

From civil rights to silver rights.

In my new book LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World, I submit that there are two things in the world, love and fear, and that what we don't love what we fear. Further, I submit that the reason...

As I was preparing to travel to Chicago earlier this week to speak at the American Bankers Association (ABA) annual conference as their luncheon keynote the following day, I heard of a series of explosive news stories describing pickets and picketers that had succeeded in disrupting the banker conference on...

In my new book, LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear Based World (Jossey-Bass), I make the case that there are only two things in the world: Love and fear, and what you don't love, you fear. I go on to say that the reason our world...

Giving is as old as the ages, and is even cited in the original business plan for life, the Bible, but very few people see giving as a value added, core competency in business.

Unfortunately, society seems to be teaching us that taking succeeds and suckers give. Well, "suckers"...

I make the point in my new book, Love Leadership: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World that "fear is the ultimate prosperity killer." I also say that fear is one lazy bastard. Fear simply hates change, and work too.

I have found that change requires a...

We must choose to prosper as a society, not just as individuals.

As unlikely as it sounds, the best way to get ahead is to figure out what you have to give to a world seemingly obsessed with only one question: "what do I get?"

In my new book,...

Loss Creates Leaders. I made that the title of the first chapter in my new book because I believe it's the most important lesson for anyone who aspires to leadership in business or elsewhere in life. It is the foundation upon which all else is built. Loss made me the...