By George Belsky 

Some years ago a close friend and West Point classmate asked me for some hip-pocket leadership training advice for his daughter. She was a West Point cadet at that time and leading new cadets through their entry level training. For those unfamiliar with the term, “hip-pocket training” is the military term for impromptu training leaders provide when they are...

Leadership Lessons from the Garden

by Jocelyn Little

I nurtured it. I cared for it. I spent time and energy helping it to grow and get strong. It still died.

Seven months ago I stumbled across a beautiful plant that had deep red, maple shaped leave resembling a Japanese maple tree, but with vibrant red flowers like a hibiscus. It intrigued me and I had to have it! I spent time researching what...

Let's Take a Trip

By George Belsky, Jr.

I heard this quote from Mark Twain for the first time the other day:  “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.  Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”...