36 Years Ago
It seems to be trendy right now to criticize government programs as wasteful and unnecessary. Consider my story: Thirty six years ago while I was a full time student in college, I had my veterans education benefit cut unexpectedly due to a clerical error. Nina was ill and not able to work as a result of her pregnancy and I was working part time as a bank teller. With the sudden loss of the VA support, within weeks we found ourselves unable to buy food. Not a penny to our name. A college frien...»
It's About Us
At the turn of the 19th Century, Samuel Langley had a $50,000.00 grant from the War Department to build the first flying machine. With that money he hired the brightest minds available that would insure him the fame of his friends, Andrew Carnegie and Alexander Graham Bell. He wanted to be first, rich and famous. Not too far away in the state of Ohio, a couple of brothers who owned a bicycle shop were also trying to build a flying machine. These Wright brothers didn’t have a high profi...»
A New PA Rising
I recently spoke to a group of 800 Brazilian leaders in Curitiba, Brazil. I shared with them the power of investing into others and leading in such a way that people are released to do great things. In Brazil there are a significant number of children who live on the streets. At a late night dinner with the organizer of the event, he shared with me his desire to develop an organization that would house, educate and transition these children back into the culture. As I begin to now travel acr...»
