Gerald R. Ford Leadership Forum
by Jeff Polet Back in October we at the Ford Leadership Forum partnered with Baylor University to host an event on fragility and resilience. These terms are very much in vogue these days, as is the profligate use of the word “trauma.” One can’t help but find it strange that the word trauma, which had …
by Jeff Polet We’ve drawn the reader’s attention in a prior essay to Lincoln’s “Lyceum Address,” one of his more interesting speeches. That’s an intense competition, because Lincoln was an unusually gifted speechwriter — a testimony to the benefits of reading the Bible and Shakespeare and Poe at a young age. While “The Gettysburg Address” …
