Personality Blog

As I mentioned in part one, leaders can become myopic, focused on their perception of the perfect employee and quite often that perfect employee “looks” much like the person making the hiring decision.

Recently I took off a couple of days to meander on Edisto beach in South Carolina. Walking the beach, smelling the salt air, feeling the warm, damp sand between my tired toes and communing with the sea…

It isn’t the world we live in that creates our distress, it is the world we create and the actor (you, me) who stands on the stage.

It is terribly sad when a man’s death is a cause for celebration. If we live our lives with love and compassion, if justice is done, we leave behind a benevolent legacy.

Who was this man with so few mourners? What were his beliefs about himself, others and the world (personality) that lead him to this inauspicious fate?

Bin Laden died on May 01, 2011. The force that took him down has been identified as SEAL Team Six of the “Naval Special Warfare Development Group.” John Brennan, the president’s top counterterrorism adviser, said Monday. “I was confident that we had the basis to take action.”