By Eli Amdur Phil Lesh, the Grateful Dead’s singularly iconic and beloved bassist, died last week at age 84. He was a beautiful musician, a wonderful man, a sweet soul. He also – through his identifiably unique approach to his instrument and how it becomes so integral to the band’s creative development – exemplified more…
By Eli Amdur Today, Oct 7, is the date in 1885 when Niels Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Business Leadership Lessons From Non-Business Sources I have always found great inspiration in my business leadership positions from people outside of business, especially those for whom profit was not a motive. One of them was Neils…
By Eli Amdur There’s much to do and little time to do it. Longshoremen’s big concerns The port workers’ strike that shut down our Eastern seaboard and Gulf coast ports has been temporarily suspended. The new do-or-die date is January 15, a fleetingly short 101 days away. “Don’t let robots take my job.” Aside from…
Leadership exists on three levels: personal, organizational, and global – and we achieve them in that order. We cannot lead others unless we first lead our own lives with some sense of order, perspective, connectedness, and purpose. That axiom underpinned all my teaching (two graduate leadership courses, 15 years) and leadership advisory (corporate across 25…
By Eli Amdur A thousand years from now, historians, cultural anthropologists and linguists will look back on the beginning of this millennium and wonder about a curiously strange phenomenon. What, they will ask, happened to adjectives? Well, at least what happened to all but two adjectives? It appears that – with a large portion of…
As dawn breaks on the first full day of freedom for Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva, and Paul Whelan, it is appropriate for us to do more than cheer. Yes, we all have reason to celebrate, and the rush we all felt when we learned of their liberation must resound and echo for a long time….
By Eli Amdur Organization Chart, n., A document that explains, in pictorial form, how an organization is supposed to work – and then clearly exposes why it doesn’t. So much for my attempt at a modern-day version of Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary. It’s a serious consideration with a pointedly simple question: When’s the last time…
By Eli Amdur HAVELTE, The Netherlands – Quietly, they sit there. They have for some 6,000 years: ancient burial sites built of massive boulders, some as heavy as 25 tons, piled on each other in a recognizable pattern and a sensible order. They are the hunebedden, and there are 54 of them here in the…
Innovation is applied creativity.
By Eli Amdur Eighty years ago – June 6, 1944 – General Dwight David Eisenhower oversaw the invasion of the European continent, specifically along 65 miles of beaches of Normandy, France. Officially designated “Operation Overlord” – we all know that fateful day as D-Day – and it was the beginning of the end of World…