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A fascinating issue popped up on my Winners Circle radio show Saturday. It prompts me to ask: Do you know what they're whispering about you?

On Friday, I had two MSU freshmen on my radio show.  They were graduates of a marvelous middle and high school program called the Art of Leadership.*  One facet of that program is that the young people write a personal life vision statement.

A book by Sims and Manz called SuperLeadership grabbed me! By "super," they meant really great, but they also meant super, from the Latin meaning above, i.e., leaders above leaders. Their whole idea, which has become way more popular since then, was simple: great leaders make followers into leaders themselves.

In 9 hours, 50 swimmers will enter the Straits to swim the four-mile distance from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Mackinaw City in the Lower Peninsula. Hopefully, the wind will diminish and allow the white caps to settle and smooth, so the swimmers can enter. Even if the waters are calm, the currents beneath will make the four-mile swim in 60-degree waters seem much further.

I was asked to speak at the kickoff for the Detroit Free Press Flagstar Marathon. I was stunned by the number, but especially the longevity of the volunteers.

Today's story reflects my hard-won victory over... well, over me. It was grueling — like a 5-set tennis match. And, like a lot of my wins in the world of self-management and other-leadership, I’ll forget how I pulled out a win, why such a win is worth the effort, and how to do it again. I hope replaying it will contribute to my, and perhaps your, future wins.

Last week, I wrote about the refreshing quality of Bill Ford's candor. As one reader put it, If Mr. Ford had difficulties in changing the culture, where is the hope for others? She wrote that candor creates peace of mind, but those who express it compromise their career growth because the existing culture does not accept them.

Friends, Candor may be one of the most powerful tools in the leadership arsenal. How remarkable when a teenage child straight up tells you the unsolicited truth. Trust is born.

From time to time being the “First Gentleman” offers some extraordinary experiences. One of those is attending the Governor’s “Families of the Fallen” gathering on the weekend before Memorial Day.

We were at a “ropes course” in the woods. Ten adults. Five pairs of two: one was blindfolded and the other was sighted, and their job was to get the blindfolded partner through a maze of ropes, laid out among the trees.

Like him or not, imagine what President Bush must feel at the juncture of two awful choices: stay with the guarantee of death or leave choas

On my radio show last week, I talked with Chester Elton, author of the best selling book, The Carrot Principle.

Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said it's real and that we need to significantly change policies on greenhouse gas emissions.

Breaking bad habits with your email inbox requires awareness and repetition.

After I interviewed Quicken Loans' Chairman Dan Gilbert on my radio program last week, he and I were commiserating about unceasing emails.

Today on the Dan Mulhern show weve got a great one-two punch: NFL Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown and Bishop Nathaniel Wells, Jr.

Today promises to be a GREAT show as Im joined by Jim Kouzes, co-author of The Leadership Challenge, arguably the best leadership book on the market.

Wednesday was an enlivening day. Day 3 of the new employee orientation at Quicken Loans.

We may face great external and internal pressure. How do we manage the creeping, invisible, and invasive pressure?

“Male and female He made them” we read in Genesis. And how are they each made for leadership? Is there a men’s leadership style? A women's?