This 2025 retrospective shows that competence without character is fragile and often harmful. Character endures, sustains, ...

My last Leading with Character blog talked about leader development through the experience gained from travel outside a classroom, using leadership lessons from my recent trip to Israel. This week, ...

A study published in 2007 on how sympathy factors into charitable donations found that when people were presented with an identifiable child who was facing severe hunger or factual information about ...

At the United States Military Academy at West Point, our object is not only to teach cadets to be tactically skilled officers, but also to develop character—the constellation of psychological ...

Yet character is such a central, important element of leadership — particularly for the kind of cross-enterprise leadership that is essential in complex, global business organizations — which it ...

One of my hardest days in the military came when we had been in Baghdad for about 30 days following the ground invasion into Iraq during the opening phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. I was ...

“A cadet will not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate those who do,” are words to live by within the Cadet Honor Code meant to cultivate the moral-ethical expectations of the future leaders of character ...

Some describe leadership as having three foundational elements: competence, commitment to the leadership role and character. Character is the least-researched and least-represented element in ...