The development of leadership skills can be addressed in many ways.  I like to observe how leaders deal with some of the most difficult situations we know, determine what they did right and wrong, and internalize the learnings.  On May 1, we saw two examples of leadership that are worth observing.

President Obama, on the first anniversary of the Bin Laden mission, personally went to Afghanistan to sign an agreement to map our path out of a decade long war.  Let me start by saying I hate war, hate the senseless killing, hate the wasted money and most importantly all the lost opportunities at home because we are focusing on things a trillion miles away.  That said, I love the leadership I saw this week. Continue reading →