February 2026

The following comes from a Nov 3/25 memo from Five Capitals.  It is a great reminder for everyone involved in Business as Mission. You can’t lead without a few scars Failure isn’t final. It’s feedback. The best leaders don’t avoid mistakes, they mine them. They get curious, not defensive. They extract lessons, recalibrate fast, and move again […]

President Ronald Reagan often quoted the Russian proverb taught to him by American scholar, Suzanne Masssie.  The proverb doveryai, no proveryai (доверяй, но проверяй) means ‘trust, but verify’. She advised him that “The Russians like to talk in proverbs…” Reagan applied the idea in his dealings with the Soviets where he added, “Don’t be afraid to see

Each year about this time, I look up some data on who were the greatest of the US Presidents; and each year, I read the same thing. Almost every time, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington are the top two presidents, followed often by FDR, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt etc. Such polling of experts is highly subjective,

  In a May 1963 Time magazine article, entitled, “Barth in Retirement,” theologian Karl Barth stated that he advised young theologians to “take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both.”  It is an oft-quoted statement, sometimes noted as “take the Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other.” Not bad advice