Leadership & Entrepreneurship

Florida State University's football and soccer teams achieved unexpected success on the field in 2022. Here are four lessons college students can learn from their success, and how to be success in life: leadership within teams matter, grit and perseverance, embrace opportunity when it comes, it ain't over til it's over. First published Dec 7, 2022.

Encouraging and supporting the ability for students to self-actualize is important for a vibrant, healthy society. In this interview, I discuss what self-actualization is, how it's achieved, and the role of educators in supporting the process. First published November 17, 2022.

Florida State's improbably success in football and soccer holds important lessons for organizational leadership: take responsibility for your decisions, lead with humility, mentor and coach your talent. First published Nov. 16, 2022.

I have never been one for titles. But when I saw how employees related to my female second in command, I realized they mattered more than I thought. Now I use "Dr." when referring to my colleagues. First published Dec. 17, 2020

As more attention is given to the entrepreneurial and start-up economy, reversing the downward decline in Millennial entrepreneurs should be a top priority. First published April 26, 2019. 

When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, some called in "the most beautiful thing." It was not. The emotional but deliberate slap was a symbol of how bad the normalization of violence has gotten. First published March 31, 2022. 

The movie United Kingdom is more than a compelling drama about inter-racial love. colonialism, and the nascent years of the Botswana's independent. It's a faithful illustration of why economic and political freedom matters.  

The multi-generational consequences of slavery extend beyond the brackets of a few dates in American history. The movie 12 Years a Slave helps explain why. 

The George Floyd killing thrust the festering problem of police brutality into the limelight. How doe we address? First we have to more fully understand the problem, and why it persists. It's harder to solve than you might think. First published on June 8, 2020.

Off-field behavior is more than just off-field. Bad behavior reflects a general break down of personal and social ethics. First published July 13, 2015.

An important theme of "Lost Cause" mythology is that Southern States left the union to protect their sovereignty from northern aggression. That's true... in part. They were leaving to protect their sovereign right to own slaves and run a slave economy. Southern secession justifications in their own words. First published August 18, 2017.

A great deal of public attention has been given to monuments memorializing Confederate generals as well as naming major military bases. This was an important part of the campaign to enforce the cultural hegemony of Jim Crow in the Southern States. First published January 15, 2021.