Stoicism at the Stockdale Center
While there are many ways to analyze ADM Stockdale’s life and his leadership, in his writings about both of those, he returned to three themes again and again. The importance of experience in stressful environments The need for principled, reflective, even philosophical leadership How leaders must bridge the gap between practical human experience (#1) and […]
Ethics Across the Curriculum
The Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership is proud to have just completed a week-long inaugural “Ethics Across the Curriculum” faculty workshop. The opening words of U.S. Naval Academy’s mission statement emphasize the great importance to the study of ethics: The mission of the United States Naval Academy is to develop midshipmen morally, mentally […]
Does the World Really Need Another Leadership and Ethics Blog?
Maybe, maybe not. What is clear is the world needs well-considered ideas to help solve “knotty problems.” I define a knotty problem as particularly difficult to solve, typically involving complex contributing factors and ambiguous potential outcomes. The current challenge facing the nation involving social justice, for example, is a classic knotty problem. That it’s a social […]