Mike Howard
Oct 18, 20245 min read
Your Vote - Policy or Personality
Hello. It has been awhile since I have written so apologies. It has been in interesting year with my wife successfully winning her battle...
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Mike Howard
Oct 18, 20244 min read
Take a Social Media Break - For Your Sanity!
Hello to all of you who subscribe to this blog. I have been away from this blog for awhile due to personal reasons. But am back and...
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Mike Howard
May 16, 20246 min read
Your Last Day on Earth - What will you do with it?
"Live not one’s life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last." Marcus Aurelius - Roman Emperor and Stoic...
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Mike Howard
May 16, 20245 min read
Leaders Own Their Mistakes
In my leadership journey, one thing has struck me as being a definite delineator between a leader and someone pretending to be a leader....
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Mike Howard
Mar 15, 20247 min read
A Pox on Both Houses
The phrase, "A pox (plague) on both houses," comes from the famous Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet. Mercurtio utters these words to...
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Mike Howard
Jan 22, 20244 min read
24 Hours with No Social Media or Email
Happy New Year. I took a short hiatus from writing this blog in order to just get away from my postings, enjoy the holidays and do some...
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Mike Howard
Jan 8, 20246 min read
The Power of Building Resilience - The Cold Plunge Way!
So I have been experimenting with cold water immersion as a way of building mental and physical resilience. I have always thought of...
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Mike Howard
Jan 8, 20244 min read
The Haunting of Our Colleges
Our universities and colleges are haunted. Haunted with the ghosts of critical thinking, tolerance, debate, reason and diversity of...
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Mike Howard
Jan 8, 20245 min read
Lack of Humility/Lack of Leadership
Lately, I have been thinking about what is going on in Washington D.C. and the utter lack of leadership, humility and courage we have on...
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Mike Howard
Jan 8, 20244 min read
Stoicism and Leadership
For many years now, I have been a student of Stoicism. A good friend of mine years ago introduced me to a book called "Meditations" by...
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Mike Howard
Jan 8, 20245 min read
Real Leaders Don't Hide
President Harry Truman once uttered the now famous phrase “The Buck Stops Here.” Truman was a man who stood by those words come hell or...
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Mike Howard
Jan 8, 20243 min read
Take the Risk - Dr. Ben Carson
I did a recent podcast where I talked about a great book I read years ago when I was the Chief Security Officer at Microsoft. I have...
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Mike Howard
Jan 8, 20243 min read
Fulfill Your Dreams!
See! Even Spiderman is enjoying my new novel "Full Circle - A Jack Trench Thriller." Hello all. I've been busy traveling and working on...
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