“I think of you as something of a fellow traveler in the perpetual attempt to discern what we can know and do to make human life more human. I share many of your convictions, in fact, most of your convictions. At this point, the only god I can believe in is the mysterious spirit of…Read More

Goodness in Leadership, Part 2

In Change-Friendly Leadership

In this continuation of my conversation with Roger Dean Duncan, bestselling author of Change-Friendly Leadership: How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance, he reflects on how personal change for the good comes from internal commitment rather than through compliance. I found a way to reconcile my experiences of evil with my faith by thinking…Read More


Goodness in leadership

In Change-Friendly Leadership

We had a conversation with Rodger Dean Duncan, bestselling author of Change-Friendly Leadership: How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance. It was an informal reality check, on my part, for some of the realities I’ve observed in my own life, as I described them in The Constant Choice. Duncan’s vision focuses on leadership, human performance,…Read More


I am sincerely at a loss for the proper words to express my admiration amazement and awe at all you endured in your early years to become the survivor, humanitarian and success that you are today. Your biography touched me deeply as a recovering alcoholic (32 years in June, if it is God’s will I…Read More


Anyone who watched television in the 60s, or played catch-up by watching Nick at Nite decades later, will know that Dick Van Dyke is a classic comedian. Aside from maybe Walter Cronkite, he and Mary Tyler Moore became the most familiar and trusted presence on American television. Half a century later, The Dick Van Dyke…Read More